High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Work has begun on the introduction of rapid transit service in the Region of Waterloo in Ontario, as an enhancement to Grand River Transit. As of 2009, an Environmental Assessment (EA) was underway to create a proposal of light rail though Kitchener and Waterloo, and adapted bus rapid transit through Cambridge. On June 24, 2009, Regional council voted to approve the project, subject to funding from higher levels of government. On June 15, 2011, council approved funding for the first phase, consisting of light rail and adapted bus rapid transit, with the eventual goal of extending light rail to Cambridge. The project is to begin construction in 2014 and open in 2017.