Supporting the City of Burlington

MPP Pierre is pleased with the funding to support the City of Burlington.

Next Generation 9-1-1

The City of Burlington Fire Services received $901.808 in funding to support Next Generation 9-1-1. Ontario is investing nearly $60 million in telecommunications infrastructure to help municipalities and emergency response centres transition to a new emergency communications system known as Next Generation 9-1-1. The funding is part of the government’s $208 million investment to help emergency operators and dispatchers save more lives by transitioning to the enhanced Next Generation 9-1-1.

Public Transit

To support Burlington Ontario is investing $5,651,231 in six transit projects through the Public Transit Infrastructure Stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program. This is part of our government’s nearly $70 billion investment in public transit over the next 10 years.

Through the Gas Tax program Burlington received $2,674,780 in funding. The funding can be used to expand service hours, increase routes, purchase new vehicles and improve accessibility to increase transit ridership.

Public Infrastructure

Burlington received a $1.6M investment for the Downtown Civic Square revitalization.