GO-Metrolinx taps AECOM for grade separation work
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefAECOM announced Monday that it has won a $4.1 million assignment from GO-Metrolinx to provide detailed design, as well as serve as the engineer-of-record, for the Strachan Grade Separation project in Toronto.
Part of the Georgetown Rail Corridor, the planned infrastructure, which meet existing and future demands for Metrolinx rail service between downtown Toronto and Georgetown, as well as open the way for a new air-rail service between Union Station and Lester Pearson International Airport. The corridor includes the GO-owned Weston and Canadian Pacific Galt subdivisions, and is also used by CN and VIA Rail.
“The Strachan Avenue Grade Separation is the cornerstone project of GO-Metrolinx’s ambitious Georgetown South expansion program, and is the largest civil engineering contract they have ever awarded,” said Bill Hjelholt, AECOM’s North America director of freight rail.
The project will add five new tracks to the existing three-track corridor, including more than 20 switches to integrate traffic into the Union Station rail corridor.
