Ontario’s Premier, Kathleen Wynne, has presented a 10-year, $31.5 billion programme of investment in rail.
The Regional Express Rail scheme will invest in major transit infrastructure projects including electrification of the core GO rail network and a second track for the Barrie line.
The six-kilometre section of track, which will double-track the railway between York University GO Station and Rutherford GO Station, is already under construction and is due to be completed in 2017.
Adding a second line will allow the number of weekly services on the Barrie line to be more than doubled over the next five years.
Around $16 billion is already being spent on the Union Pearson Express, the Eglinton Crosstown light rail system and the Union Station redevelopment.
