Ontario Line: Construction begins at Pape Station [Video]

Ontario Line construction crews have broken ground at Pape Station, one of 15 stops along the province’s ambitious cross-city transit line.

The stop in the city’s east end in Greektown will connect with the TTC’s Bloor-Danforth line and cut travel times from the site to the downtown core from 25 minutes to 12, the provincial government said.

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“The future Pape Station will serve as a key transit node, with more than 10,000 customers using the station during the busiest travel hour, making it faster and easier for commuters to travel across the city,” Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma told reporters at a rainy Tuesday morning news conference.

Construction on the transit network began in late 2021 and is expected to be complete by 2031 with an estimated price tag of $19 billion. Initially, when Premier Doug Ford unveiled his vision for the 15.6- relief subway line in 2019, the total cost was …