{"id":35243,"date":"2026-04-30T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/contract-awarded-for-first-major-package-of-hamilton-lrt-civil-utility-work\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:51:25","slug":"contract-awarded-for-first-major-package-of-hamilton-lrt-civil-utility-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/contract-awarded-for-first-major-package-of-hamilton-lrt-civil-utility-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract awarded for first major package of Hamilton LRT civil, utility work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HAMILTON, ONT. \u2014 Hamilton Transit Alliance, led by Aecon Infrastructure Inc., has been awarded the first major package for the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.constructconnect.com\/details\/3416962-design-build-hamilton-lrt-mcmaster-university-to-eastgate-square&amp;find_loc=ON-L8R-1A1\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton LRT<\/a>, undertaking the civil and utilities work.<\/p>\n<p>The province and federal governments are investing up to $3.4\u00a0billion to support the development and construction of the Hamilton LRT, a release notes.<\/p>\n<p>The contract includes preparatory work along the LRT route, including utility relocations, grade separations, road reconstruction and upgraded sidewalks and traffic control systems.<\/p>\n<p>The contract will also advance design work to replace the bridge over Highway 403, build a new LRT underpass beneath the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Hamilton Subdivision near Gage Avenue and improve the Queenston Road bridge over the Red Hill Valley Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, infrastructure improvements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>14 kilometres of sewer replacement and separation;<\/li>\n<li>16 kilometres of watermain replacement;<\/li>\n<li>14 kilometres of road reconstruction;<\/li>\n<li>28 kilometres of replaced and upgraded sidewalks; and<\/li>\n<li>62 upgraded and replaced traffic signals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 14\u2011kilometre LRT will create approximately 6,000 jobs annually during construction and up to 1,000 permanent jobs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/infrastructure\/2026\/04\/contract-awarded-for-first-major-package-of-hamilton-lrt-civil-utility-work\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] HAMILTON, ONT. \u2014 Hamilton Transit Alliance, led by Aecon Infrastructure Inc., has been awarded the first major package for &#8230; <a title=\"Contract awarded for first major package of Hamilton LRT civil, utility work\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/contract-awarded-for-first-major-package-of-hamilton-lrt-civil-utility-work\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Contract awarded for first major package of Hamilton LRT civil, utility work\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-35243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}