TORONTO - Premier Dalton McGuinty is releasing details of $9 billion worth of public transit projects for the Greater Toronto Area.
A 30-kilometre rapid transit line will be built along Toronto's Eglinton Avenue from Kennedy subway station to Pearson Airport, including a 13-kilometre underground section, and is scheduled to be in service by 2016.
Another Toronto transit line to be completed by 2013 will be built along Finch Avenue from the Yonge subway station west to Highway 27 and Humber College, and east to Don Mills station.
The Scarborough Rapid Transit line will be upgraded and extended by 2015.
York Region's VIVA rapid transit system will have more buses, bus stations and dedicated bus lanes by 2013.
McGuinty says the government will also go ahead with a $3-million feasibility study for Hamilton rapid transit, looking at King and Main streets and the James Street-Upper James Street corridor.
