NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING: UNION STATION RAIL CORRIDOR (USRC) EAST ENHANCEMENTS PROJECT
TRANSIT PROJECT ASSESSMENT PROCESS
To keep up with our growing region, Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is transforming the way the region
moves by delivering the largest transit infrastructure program in Canadian history to keep the region moving today and
tomorrow. The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is now home to nearly 7 million people and heading towards
9 million by 2041. To address the urgent transit needs of the GTHA, the Province of Ontario committed to implement
more GO service and make other infrastructure improvements to the GO system to help create new transit connections
and faster service across the region. By 2025, electric trains will be running every 15 minutes or, all day and in both
directions, within the most heavily travelled sections of the GO network.
THE PROJECT
To support Regional Express Rail, Metrolinx is
completing a Transit Project Assessment
Process (TPAP) that is proposing to expand and
improve the eastern portion of the Union Station
Rail Corridor (USRC), east of Yonge Street to
the Don River, within the City of Toronto. The
plan is to add track capacity (one track to the
north and two tracks to the south of the existing
rail corridor), increase train storage capacity
(Wilson Yard) and modify bridges to
accommodate new tracks:
South side of Lower Jarvis Street
North and south side of Lower Sherbourne Street
North side of Parliament Street
North side of Cherry Street
West side of Lower Don River Trail
THE PROCESS
Metrolinx will assess the environmental impacts of this project following the Transit Project Assessment Process, as
prescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08 made under the Environmental Assessment Act. As part of the TPAP, an
Environmental Project Report will be prepared. This project is currently in the Pre-TPAP Phase.
CONSULTATION
Your participation is an important part of this process. In preparation for the commencement of the TPAP later in 2017,
you are invited to attend the Public Meeting listed below. The project team will be on hand to answer questions and
receive your comments.
Date: Wednesday June 28, 2017
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (Presentation to begin at 7:00 p.m.)
Location: Lucie and Thornton Blackburn Conference Centre – Grand Room*
George Brown College Campus
80 Cooperage Street, Toronto, ON
*This location is accessible.
If you would like to be added to our project mailing list, submit a comment or question, or to receive additional
information related to the Project, please contact:
Union Station Rail Corridor East Enhancements
c/o Georgina Collymore
Senior Advisor, Environmental Assessment Communications & Community Relations
20 Bay Street, Suite 600, Toronto, ON
tel: 416-202-4921
e-mail:
unionstationeast@metrolinx.com
website:
www.metrolinx.com/unionstationeast