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Canada and Manitoba invest in public transit infrastructure in Winnipeg
Joint federal, provincial, and municipal funding through the Investing in Canada
Infrastructure
Program (ICIP)
will support
infrastructure
projects in the City of
Winnipeg
projects
will
support
the electrification of Winnipeg’s public transit and improve
the system’s
capacity,
efficiency and safety.
The Government of Canada
is investing up to
$203,599,200
in these projects through
Public
Transit Infrastructure Stream
. The Government of
Manitoba
’s investment totals
169,649,033
while the City of
Winnipeg
is contributing $
135,750,268
to these projects.
Project Information
Project title
Description
Federal
Funding
Provincial
Funding
Municipal
Funding
Transition to
Zero Emission
Buses
The project includes the
purchase of
approximately
zero emission buses, charging
infrastructure, and 135 Diesel
buses.
Up to
10,655,2
92,203,445
73,779,355
North Garage
Replacement
70 year
North Garage
will be r
eplac
a new
certified energy
efficient bus
storage and
maintenance facility
building will accommodate
increased capacity and will be
designed to facilitate the
transition to a zero
emission
bus fleet.
Up to
73,022,800
60,846,248
48,687,952
Primary Transit
Network
Infrastructure
project supports the
Winnipeg Transit Master Plan
through a complete redesign of
the transit network in the City
of Winnipeg.
7,265,600
6,054,061
$4,844,
Radio &
Intelligent
Transportation
The project
will replace
existing bus radio hardware
equipment
with
Intelligent
Transportation Systems
$5,390,000
$4,491,218
$3,593,783
System
Replacement
technology
in all fleet
vehicles.
Wheelchair
Securements
Retro
The project
will
retrofit
approximately 325 wheelchair
securement
device
s on
existing buses in order to meet
ccessibility
requirements for
all transit users.
$4,605,600
$3,837,616
$3,070,784
Rapid Transit
(Downtown
Corridors)
Preliminary
Design
The project consists of the
preliminary design work
the proposed downtown
Rapid
Transit
corridors.
$2,660,000
2,216,445
$1,773,555
* Subject to the necessary federal due diligence and approvals process