Ottawa's light rail expansion project has now ballooned to nearly $4.7 billion — more than $1 billion over the original budget — and will take two years longer to complete than originally planned. The expansion, which will add 44 kilometres of track and 24 new stations, is now scheduled to be finished by 2025 instead of 2023. Its bid came in at $2.57 billion, well above the $1.98 billion target the city had set. The Confederation Line expansion project will see the line extended to Trim Road in the east and Moodie Drive in the west, as well as an extension to Algonquin College. This deal, if approved, would also include a 30-year maintenance contract, making SNC-Lavalin's contract worth $1.6 billion.

Source: CBC News February 22, 2019 19:30 UTC