MONTREAL — Bombardier Transportation has received a $55 million order to build 20 two-level commuter-train cars for the Toronto area, the Canadian Press reported.
The order from the Greater Toronto Transit Authority, which runs the GO Transit service that brings commuters by rail to downtown Toronto from suburbs to the north, east and west, adds to an existing fleet of 341 Bombardier-built commuter-rail cars, the company said yesterday.
The vehicles will be built at Bombardier’s Thunder Bay manufacturing facility and the first new cars will be ready by late summer.
GO Transit went into service in 1978. Bombardier Transportation is a subsidiary of manufacturing giant Bombardier Inc.
The company announced last week that Paul Tellier will leave as Canadian National Railway Co.’s president and chief executive officer to take the same positions at Bombardier, effective Jan. 1.
Tellier replaces Robert Brown, who stepped down amid a difficult year for the transportation company, which is still suffering from a poor outlook for aerospace manufacturing and other divisions.
Bombardier shares closed up 5 cents at $5.55 on the Toronto Stock Exchange yesterday.