Published Wednesday, May 12, 2021 12:24PM EDT
Last Updated Wednesday, May 12, 2021 4:42PM EDT
Toronto will receive $360 million in funding from the federal and provincial governments to move forward with the purchase of dozens of new streetcars from the same Thunder Bay plant that produced the city’s last problem-plagued order of the low-floor vehicles.
The city had already approved the purchase of 13 new streetcars from the Alstom plant in Thunder Bay back in October but will now be able to move ahead with an option to purchase 47 more with delivery of the vehicles starting in 2023.
The total cost will be $568 million with the city covering a little over one-third of the bill on its own ($208 million) and the provincial and federal governments chipping in the rest.