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- - Bridgepoint Health Master Plan Recognized for Planning Excellence
- - BA Group Holiday Hours 2008-09
- - BA Honoured at 10th Annual CANstruction Competition
- - BA Group’s Projects in “The Top 100”
- - BA Group Launches 2008 CANstruction Sponsorship!
- - The BA Group Scholarship at McMaster University
- - BA Group is participating in the Clean Air Commute!
- - BA Group: Recent Appointments
- - BA Group Sponsors GO-By-Bike to Ajax
- - BA Participating in National Denim Day for The Cure
- - BA Group Sponsors the gTO Green Tie Event
- - Anthony Yates appointed to Vice President
- - Congratulations to Warren Chow – our newest Senior Transportation Engineer
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MoveOntario 2020
Jun 15, 2007Premier Dalton McGuinty presented a $17.5 billion proposal for the largest transit expansion in Canadian history today.
The proposal contains 52 transit projects in total, including:
- extending the Yonge subway line to Highway 7;
- extending the Spadina subway line into York Region, including the York University station;
- electrifying GO Transit’s busiest line – the Lakeshore line; and
- implementing Transit City’s light rail line (proposed in March, 2007).
The proposal also includes: more transit in York, Durham and Peel Regions; two light rapid transit lines in Hamilton; and more express buses along Highway 407.
The proposal also includes: more transit in York, Durham and Peel Regions; two light rapid transit lines in Hamilton; and more express buses along Highway 407.
The plan has both personal and global issues at its heart: “Life is busy enough without sitting on a highway when you need to get home to get the kids to soccer or to help them with homework . . . MoveOntario 2020 includes 902 kilometres of new or improved rapid transit that will move people efficiently around the region. It will result in 800 million new transit trips per year, taking 300 million car trips off GTA roads. This will cut smog and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 megatonnes by 2020.”
The plan will be overseen by the GTTA and is expected to be 66% complete by 2015 and 95% complete by 2020. The McGuinty government has pledged $11.5 billion - 65% of the total bill - to the project.
BA Group’s former President, Edward Levy, has been invited to join, on a voluntary basis, an advisory committee formed by the GTTA to help review and implement the MoveOntatio 2020 initiative.
For full information on the plan, visit the MoveOntario 2020 website.