GO Kitchener Extension
Province: Ontario
City/Region: Toronto to Kitchener
Image Credit: Metrolinx
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Project Rank
Project End: 2031
Project Type: Rail
Industry Sector: Transit
Project Amount: $959 million
Date of Completion: 2031
Funding Source: Public
Provincial Funding: $959 million
LEED Status: Certified
Previous Rankings
| 2025 | 74 |
| 2024 | 65 |
| 2023 | 64 |
| 2022 | 60 |
| 2019 | 37 |
| 2018 | 31 |
| 2026 | 77 |
About The Project
To enable two-way, all-day service on the Kitchener Line from Union Station to Kitchener GO Station improvements will be made along the rail corridor and to some existing stations on the Kitchener GO Line. A key package of work between Georgetown and Kitchener was completed in 2024, including: a 2.6 km passing track in Breslau; a new second platform at Guelph Central GO Station; and the new storage track for maintenance vehicles west of Guelph.
Project Owner: Metrolinx
Engineer: Gannett Fleming, AECOM (Toronto to Kitchener); Hatch; LEA Consulting, Parsons (consulting); WSP (design/construction oversight as part of 4Transit JV)
Other Key Players: Canadian National Railway Company; Bird Construction; CIMA+; R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; Turner & Townsend (project controls); Accenture (project manager); Stantec; TULLOCH; KPMG
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner)
Key Players
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Gold (15-19 Projects)
Silver (10-14 Projects)
Bronze (5-9 Projects)
- ACCIONA Infrastructure Canada
- Accuracy
- Alstom
- Associated Engineering
- Black & McDonald
- Blake, Cassels & Graydon
- Cartel Communication Systems
- COWI
- Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
- DECAST Ltd.
- DIALOG
- EBC Inc.
- FlatironDragados
- GeoVerra
- HDR
- Hemmera
- Infrata
- Kasian
- Lakeland Consulting Inc.
- Lavery, de Billy
- LRI Engineering
- McMillan LLP
- Montrose Environmental
- Mott MacDonald
- Mulvey & Banani
- NORR Architects & Engineers Ltd.
- Osler
- Parkin Architects Ltd.
- Plenary Americas
- R.V. Anderson
- STRABAG Inc.
- Tiree
- Torys

