Transport Minister Announces Nearly $20 Million for Transit Security Projects
Posted on: Monday, 21 January 2008, 18:00 CST
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL - Federal Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon came to Montreal Monday to announce $19.9 million in new projects to improve passenger rail and urban transit security.
In Quebec, the Montreal Transit Corporation gets the biggest chunk of the $6.5 million set aside for public transit operators in the province.
It will receive more than $3.7 million for projects to help revamp its communications network and surveillance operations.
TransLink, Metro Vancouver's transit authority, will receive roughly $7 million and most of the money-$5.2 million - is for communications equipment.
In Toronto, $1.1 million will be spent on measures to control access at busy Union Station.
The money is being provided under Transit-Secure, a three-year, $80-million federal cost-sharing program, which provides 75 per cent of the funding for the projects.
Source: Canadian Press
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