WATCH ABOVE: The TTC fired 2 managers responsible for a delayed subway extension on Thursday. Mark McAllister reports.
TORONTO – The TTC has fired the managers responsible for the oft-delayed, over-budget York-Spadina subway extension.
TTC CEO Andy Byford sent a note to employees Thursday declaring that, effective immediately, chief capital officer Sameh Ghaly and chief project manager Andy Bertolo were no longer working with the TTC.
“I don’t need to remind anyone of the importance of the TYSSE project to Toronto and the TTC,” Byford said in the statement, referring to the subway extension.
“As CEO, I am ultimately accountable to our board and City Council for the on-time, on-budget delivery of this and all TTC projects.”
The six-stop extension was supposed to open this year but now won’t be completed until 2017.
The TTC will present a report on the extension and further options for the project at an upcoming board meeting in March. That report may also include details on how much the project is over-budget – a number that the Toronto Star recently pegged at $400 million. The project’s original budget was $2.5 billion.
Mayor John Tory told reporters at City Hall last week that he was “furious” about the cost overruns.
“Clearly, there has not been the discipline, the management or the proper communication of what has been going on with regard to these projects,” Tory said, according to The Globe and Mail.
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