Released on June 3, 2016
Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Government Relations Minister Jim Reiter and City of Regina Mayor Michael Fougere, today announced funding for a new Transit Fleet Maintenance Facility in Regina.“We all know how important investing in affordable and efficient public transit infrastructure is to allow Canadians to get to work on time and back home at the end of a long day,” said Goodale. “This new maintenance facility will increase efficiency, help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and better meet the transit needs of Regina residents now and into the future.”
“Our government is proud to invest $9.7 million toward the City of Regina’s new Transit Fleet Maintenance Facility,” Reiter said. “We look forward to continuing to work with our municipal and federal partners on important infrastructure projects as our province continues to grow.”
“This project is all about growth and sustainability,” Fougere said. “A new transit maintenance facility is an important project that will ultimately result in an increase in frequency of buses and expanded transit service to existing and new neighbourhoods for Regina’s growing, diverse population. Consolidating our bus maintenance and operations facility will make us more efficient, reduce unnecessary emissions, and make transit operations more sustainable.”
A key component of making the city’s transit system efficient and effective, this project includes the construction of a new 60,000 square foot Transit Fleet Maintenance Facility adjacent to the current Transit Operations Centre (TOC). The existing 67 year-old facility, which is located 3 kilometres away from the TOC, no longer meets the needs of Regina’s ever-growing transit fleet.
The new facility will increase efficiency, saving upward of 3,000 hours a year currently spent transporting buses back and forth between the two locations. Eliminating this extra drive time, in addition to being able to accommodate larger, energy-efficient articulated buses at the new facility, will contribute to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Overall, this new facility will enable the city to meet the service needs of the community in the future with the delivery of transit to existing and new neighbourhoods.
The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan are each contributing up to $9,716,666 to this project through the Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component – National and Regional Projects (PTIC-NRP). The City of Regina is contributing $10,666,668. The estimated total project cost is $30,100,000.
Associated links:
To learn more about Canada’s new infrastructure plan, visit www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/index-eng.html.
To learn more about the Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component – National and Regional Projects (PTIC-NRP), visit www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/nrp-pnr-prog-eng.html.
To see details on federal infrastructure investments in Saskatchewan, visit www.infrastructure.gc.ca/map-carte/sk-eng.html.
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For more information, contact:
Brook Simpson
Office of the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
Ottawa
Phone: 613-219-0149
Email: brook.simpson@canada.ca
Brennen Schmidt
Government Relations
Regina
Phone: 306-787-2687
Email: brennen.schmidt@gov.sk.ca
Desirae Bernreuther
City of Regina
Regina
Phone: 306-777-7486
Email: dbernreu@regina.ca
Infrastructure Canada
Ottawa
Phone: 613-960-9251
Email: infc.media-medias.infc@canada.ca