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Aecon jv announced for York Viva Bus Rapid Transit project

Aecon Group Inc , Canada's largest publicly traded construction company, advised that the Region of York has announced that York RapidLINK Constructors, a 50/50 joint venture comprised of Aecon and Dufferin Construction Company, a division of Holcim (Canada) Inc., has been chosen for a $261 million project to design and build the York Viva Bus Rapid Transit (vivaNext) rapidways along Yonge Street in the Towns of Richmond Hill and Newmarket.

The scope of the project includes widening Yonge Street to accommodate approximately nine kilometres of dedicated rapidway lanes for Viva rapid transit vehicles in the centre of the road, as well as ten new vivastations.

Work will commence in the second quarter of 2014 and is expected to be complete in the fourth quarter of 2018.



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