February 7, 2012

York Region, Ontario approves subway construction expenditures

The Regional Municipality of York, which is the upper level of municipal government for cities and towns immediately north of Toronto, recently approved a capital budget that includes $332.2 million for rapid transit construction projects.

On Jan. 26, York Regional Council approved the 2012 business plan and budget, which includes $1.2 billion in gross capital expenditures. That includes $275 million in 2012 for construction of an extension of the Toronto Transit Commission subway. The project, known as the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension, would extend the underground train route 8.6 kilometres northwest from Downsview Station at Allen Road and Sheppard Avenue to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, near Highway 7 east of Highway 400. Three stations would be in the City of Toronto, two would be in York Region in the city of Vaughan while the Steeles West Station would be on the municipal boundary.

York Regional Council approved a total of $332.2 million for rapid transit in 2012, to include preliminary engineering on the extension of the Yonge subway line north from Toronto into York Region. The figures are for 2012 expenditures and do not include costs of projects in subsequent years.

Council also approved expenditures in 2012 of $140 million on the York Durham Sewage System Southeast Collector, a $290-million project by Austrian contractor Strabag. The project includes 15 kilometres of wastewater pipe running from a diversion facility in the Town of Markham south and east into the city of Pickering, which is part of Durham Region east of Toronto.

Regional politicians approved a total of $297 million in wastewater capital expenditures, including work on the Duffin Creek Wastewater Pollution Control plant expansion and the Keswick Water Pollution Control Plant expansion.

A total of $40 million was approved for waste management projects, including $30 million for the construction of an energy from waste facility in Durham Region.

York Region Council voted to spend $132.9 million in 2012 on regional roads, including $13 million for widening Stouffville Road from Highway 404 to McCowan Road.

Other big-ticket items include construction of the Kennedy Watermain from Milliken Reservoir to Major Mackenzie and $73 million for water and wastewater cost-shared work programs with the city of Toronto and Regional Municipality of Peel to the west.

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