JANUARY 2019 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA 107
By Anna Guy
The GO Transit expansion will bring
more train trips to every GO rail corri-
dor making it faster and easier for
Whitby residents to travel throughout
the GTHA and surrounding communi-
ties.
W
ell
known
as
a
commuter suburb to
the east of the GTA, Go
Transit is a major part of life for resi-
dents in Whitby, ON—and with a new,
$859.2 million investment in Go Tran-
sit, its only going to get better. And
yes, you read that right: that price tag
makes it delivering the largest transit
infrastructure program in Canadian
history.
Construction began in March, 2015 on
the Whitby Rail Maintenance Facility,
500,000 square feet of maintenance,
repair, and additional storage space
for GO Trains and support GO Tran-
sit's planned service expansions.
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metro-
linx awarded a contract to Plenary
Infrastructure ERMF to design, build,
finance and maintain the Whitby Rail
Maintenance Facility (WRMF) project.
The contract ensures that the facility
will be delivered for a fixed price and
by a fixed delivery date.
But the WRMF is part of a much larger
expansion project for Metrolinx, which
has designed an ambitious plan to
transform the existing GO rail system
