Metrolinx

• Free transit and fireworks: Everything you need to know for New Year’s Eve in Toronto

  The City of Toronto is putting on a 10-minute waterfront fireworks display, while both Metrolinx and the TTC are offering free transit riders into the night and early morning. 

  Canada

  Dec 31, 2024
  
• TTC plans to redirect downtown access with potential lineup on New Year’s Eve

  The TTC said it would be restricting access to Union Station Subway Station and make people enter the station via the Brookfield Place doors on Bay Street, south of Front Street.

  Canada

  Dec 27, 2024
  
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• New Metrolinx CEO promises to ‘start talking’ in effort to finish Eglinton Crosstown LRT

  On Monday, Infrastructure Ontario CEO Michael Lindsay was appointed as the head of the provincial transit agency Metrolinx to replace the departing Phil Verster.

  Politics

  Dec 4, 2024
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• Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster resigns after 7 years at transportation planning agency

  Phil Verster has been singled out by political detractors who believe the CEO should be held accountable for the ongoing delays in delivery of key transportation projects.

  Politics

  Dec 2, 2024
• Outgoing Metrolinx CEO receives yearly vehicle allowance sources say he doesn’t use

  Phil Verster, who is stepping away from Metrolinx, has consistently received a taxable benefit of between $12,575 to $13,392 on top of his taxpayer-funded salary.

  Politics

  Dec 2, 2024
• Doug Ford promised to build a new local train station. Metrolinx says it’s a bad idea

  Last spring, the government announced it was granting zoning order to a Mississauga development, with a promise the move would also bring a new GO statin to the area.

  Politics

  Nov 15, 2024
• Metrolinx focuses new division on beleaguered LRT projects but critics demand more changes

  Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster said the agency needed to 'evolve and adapt' as it deals with an 'expanded mandate' that includes building new transit lines.

  Canada

  Oct 16, 2024
• Metrolinx makes changes to key roles in staffing shakeup as delayed LRT projects stumble

  On Tuesday, Metrolinx told employees that the agency's chief planner and the chief operating officer of rapid transit had both left the company.

  Canada

  Oct 15, 2024
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• Hurontario LRT track trouble and delays threaten credit rating, completion timeline

  Mobilinx, the construction consortium building the 18-kilometre line, was awarded a $4.6-billion contract in 2019 to design, build, finance and operate the line for 30 years.

  Politics

  Oct 15, 2024
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• Metrolinx tells Finch West LRT builders to drop legal action and get ‘back to work’

  The project, originally slated to be completed in 2023, had proved less controversial than the Eglinton Crosstown LRT but recently hit a snag.

  Canada

  Oct 2, 2024