I'm wondering where you got only $200M?
The investment made in GTS for upgrades to the Georgetown Corridor, excluding UPX, was
reported as $875M. According to the Province, UPX was an additional $459M - "delivered on time, on budget" by their account.
The thing that we are just bitterly returning to is that the $875M got us very little additional service on this line, certainly nothing like what was promised. That amount is on top of what was invested in 2003-2005 to triple track parts of the Halton Sub, double track others, and build an additional bridge track (with piers for a third track) over the Credit River. (I'm still hunting for what that might have cost)
Somehow all that money was invested without getting a binding and enforceable commitment from CN supporting further service, beyond the meagre additions since the Mount Pleasant triple tracking opened in February 2005. Metrolinx has yet to answer for how that (didn't) happen.
An interesting summary of all the to-ing and fro-ing by GO on this line prior to kicking off the GTS Project can be found in
this 2009 report to Brampton City Council. There was a decade of delay before GTS. And, just to remind all, the
EA for Doubletracking from Georgetown to Kitchener was completed eight years ago, in 2009.
But yeah, that's where we are. I do see the RER Business Case document lays out a number of Plan B options for the Bramalea-Georgetown portion, which were developed before the bypass was seriously tabled. I would guess that these bound the amount that CN can ask for the bypass. I am still hopeful that there is a negotiation proceeding with a result somewhere in between Plan A and these Plan B options.
- Paul
The cost were outlined here.