From someone who has been a “VP” of varying degrees since my 20s in an unrelated field, my assumption is Metrolinx is suffering from title inflation. These VP job titles are likely senior managers or directors managing small teams. I assume only a small cohort of VPs at Metrolinx have true...

The activity at West Highland Creek on the ST line has slowed to a crawl. The only work I’ve witnessed in the last few weeks has been some surveying and wiring up the two work trailers/project offices (I’m unsure what they’re called) for electricity.

It’s definitely both. We’ve read numerous articles that “no one” wants to make a decision, so minor things go to through dozens of committees etc.

In the CEO section of the public board meeting today, Lindsay referred to the new Grimbsy station design being “simple” and “straightforward”, or words along those lines, to help speed up construction. He mentioned changes to the Capital Projects Group procurement model emulating what he had...

If you take the media headlines at face value Metrolinx has fired 1,000 consultants across 400 contracts and loosely kept headcount roughly stable. The prior delegated authority to those consultants is now to internal employees, again taking media from earlier this year at face value. If...

Prior references to round trip time included dwell time, so I would expect today’s to as well.

I believe these photos are from the June 6-7 LSE weekend closure. If that’s correct, it would suggest the November closures will be used for 3rd and 4th track switch installation west of Danforth GO. It would be interesting to see a timelapse of the machines in the second photo installing track...

There’s still the Line 5 LRT western extension, Hurontario LRT, Hamilton LRT, Ontario Line (driving a significant amount of the over budget spending), Scarborough Subway Extension and Yonge North Subway Extension all fighting with GO for precious (finite) funding.

I had some time to flip through some annual reports. My "GO Expansion" column includes the "Expansion and Optimization" projects for 2018-19 to 2022-23 fiscal years. GO Expansion has come in 5.1Bn underbudget while the subway/LRT program has gone 7.2Bn overbudget. This dynamic has driven GO...

For what it’s worth, my firm in an unrelated industry has tied increasing the attrition rate to manager’s compensation. The top of the house feels the firm is too stagnant with deadweight staff coasting, so is incentivizing managers to increase turnover back up to an industry mean through...

https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/v1781900027/Documents/corporate/Item_12_-_2025-26_Annual_Report_En.pdf Page 69-71 of the annual report confirm topics that have been discussed in this forum. The capital plan is 8% over budget due to elevated spending on LRT and subways. GO Expansion...

For those at home on a Friday evening, the Board meeting documents were uploaded. https://www.metrolinx.com/en/about-us/the-board/board-meetings/meeting-2026-06-25 I wonder how effective they will be as bed time stories for the kids.

Does anyone know why the guardrails are installed “in reverse” in this section of the busway? The guardrails further north before the busway ends are installed “normally”.

Another contributing factor to the fourth track being pushed further out than I originally expected is the originally laid fourth track between East Harbour and Danforth GO was used to replace the existing third track. I believe contractors used the June 6-7 weekend closure to rip out the...

Thanks for the explanation. I learned something new. Crews were busy this morning. By my afternoon commute home the drilling rig is gone, the ground is distributed and there are some barrels remaining. Let’s see if the project continues to progress over the summer or if collecting new samples...