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innsertnamehere · May 15, 2023

Hamilton will be starting construction on a new bus storage and maintenance facility this year, capable of storing 200 buses (which would be the majority of Hamilton's fleet, from what I recall). The garage will be located at 2 Hillyard Street, 10 Hillyard Street, 70 Brant Street, and 80 Brant Street, in the lower city. This is notable as while the majority of bus service hours in Hamilton are in the lower city, the only current garage is way up by the airport far away from most bus service areas, resulting in very large deadheading times.

The new garage is expected to relieve significant bus crowding issues at the current garage (which involves parking many buses in a gravel parking lot behind the garage and the employee parking lot overnight) and provide a base for Hamilton to increase service levels into the future.

The $264 million project has funding from federal infrastructure funds:

Over $500 million from 3 governments earmarked for Hamilton’s public transit infrastructure - Hamilton | Globalnews.ca

Joint federal, provincial and municipal funding tied to Ottawa's Investing in Canada plan will support seven transit projects in Hamilton.

globalnews.ca

Hamilton Transit Bus Maintenance & Storage Facility Design | City of Hamilton

www.hamilton.ca

Some renderings from the tender documents:

Amare · May 15, 2023

Wow the day is finally coming after the long awaited talks over the past 2 decades. This thing is way, way overdue.

innsertnamehere · Oct 20, 2023

Hamilton’s bus barn budget spikes by $80 million

City appealing for extra federal and provincial help to cover inflation-driven overages on what is now expected to be a two-year, $331-million project

www.thespec.com

Hamilton’s bus barn budget spikes by $80 million

Hamilton’s new bus barn is over budget by around $80 million before shovels even hit the ground on a facility considered critical to the city’s transit future.
The “wacky,” inflation-driven overage is an unwelcome budget blow for a council preparing to grapple with a potential double-digit tax hike next year, acknowledged Mayor Andrea Horwath.
“We’re just going to continue to push forward,” said Horwath, adding she has reached out to upper levels of government for help with the startling overage.
The mayor argued the city can’t afford to delay the project further given a looming bus route redesign and the need to ramp up service ahead of a planned light-rail transit line. “We need to build out the HSR.”
In 2021, the federal and provincial governments offered to cover the majority of the tab to build a lower-city bus maintenance and storage garage then pegged to cost around $250 million. The city agreed to put up to $80 million into the Wentworth Street North building.

But all bids on the two-year construction project came in well over budget this spring — a spike city officials attribute mainly to pandemic-inspired inflation, particularly for required construction materials like structural steel and cement.
After several closed-door meetings and negotiations with the low-bidder, councillors recently voted to award the project to contractor Pomerleau for $331 million.

Amare · Oct 25, 2023

Well at least Horwath says she wants to press ahead with building this out. Had this been Eisenburger, i'm sure this project would never see the light of day.

Branden Simon · Dec 11, 2023

The New HSR bus Barn started construction with couple of excavators, a shoring rig, and bunch of sewer pipes. (Photo from Joe on flicker)

@Paclo I need a suggestion on this New HSR bus barn thread to relocate from Transportation and Infrastructure fourm to Buildings forum?

macro · Dec 11, 2023

That green rooftop connected to the parking garage looks like it could serve as a nice little parkette for the community and would have an amazing panoramic view of the city.