Council Awards $5.4-million Contract For New City Transit Garage
Fredericton (March 8, 2010) – City Council has awarded Pomerleau Inc. a $5,404,000 contract to build Fredericton’s new Transit Operations Centre.
Pomerleau, a general contracting and construction management company based in Saint-Georges, Quebec, was the lowest bidder meeting all specifications. Construction is expected to begin this Spring with a completion date of November 2010.
The new Transit Operations Centre was one of the key recommendations of the Transit Master Plan, commissioned by the City in 2008, to guide the expansion of the transit system for the next 20 years. The facility will be constructed adjacent to the City’s existing transit garage at 470 St. Mary’s Street in Fredericton North.
The new Centre will provide a storage and service facility for the City’s current fleet of 28 transit buses and three para-transit buses and also allow for future growth.
Goguen White Architects Ltd., of Fredericton, was awarded a contract by the City last October to provide design architectural and engineering services for the project.
Funding for the facility is being provided through the Government of Canada’s Public Transit Capital Trust, which is administered in New Brunswick by the Provincial Government. The Trust provides funds to municipalities making capital investments in public transit and infrastructure both as a means to reduce traffic congestion and to reduce carbon dioxide and other emissions. The City of Fredericton is contributing $423,000.
The City of Fredericton has already benefited from the Public Transit Capital Trust, which began in 2006, having used Trust funds to significantly improve its fleet through the purchase of new vehicles.
Fredericton Transit has 45 employees and operates eight bus routes throughout the municipality.
Incorporated in 1966, Pomerleau Inc. has 1,300 employees. It is the top prime contractor in Quebec and among the top in Canada. The private company has worked on more than 1,600 projects worth more than $8 billion. Pomerleau Inc. serves Eastern Canada from Ontario to Newfoundland, with regional offices in Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax.
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Media Contact: Sandy MacNeill, Transit Manager, City of Fredericton, 506-460-2203.
