Metrolinx makes changes to key roles in staffing shakeup as delayed LRT projects stumble
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On Tuesday, Metrolinx told employees that the agency's chief planner and the chief operating officer of rapid transit had both left the company.
Two senior transit executives at Metrolinx appear to be the casualties of a major shakeup at the provincial transit agency, Global News has learned, as the Crown corporation struggles with the delayed delivery of multiple light rail vehicle projects.
On Tuesday, Metrolinx told employees about changes that mean the agency’s chief planner and the chief operating officer of rapid transit had both left the company, as the planning department undergoes a complete overhaul.
The changes come in the wake of several Global News stories outlining the construction and financial challenges plaguing the Eglinton Crosstown, Finch West and Hurontario LRTs which have left all three projects without a completion date.
Metrolinx said its “mandate and the complexity” of the work it handles is changing, citing that as a reason for the internal shakeup.
The LRT delays have led to persistent calls for top-to-bottom transformation at Metrolinx, including the firing of its CEO Phil Verster, who remains in the position.
The changes, however, appear to relate to the province’s transit construction woes: one of the executives who left the agency was directly involved in the delivery of transit projects, while another dealt with public-private partnerships, also known as P3 projects.
A now-deleted description of the chief planning officer’s role said they had “overseen the construction and completion of countless instrumental infrastructural pieces” and “partnered with Infrastructure Ontario on the procurement of P3 projects.”
The chief operating officer of rapid transit, who is also no longer with the agency, was “responsible for bringing into service the upcoming Light Rail Transit, and Subways Systems.”
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