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Andy Takagi

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Sep 16, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Andy Takagi

    What could private investment mean to Pearson airport and Toronto travellers? Here’s what the experts say (opens the original)

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    Higher airport fees, drop-off charges and price-gouging. Or, alternatively, an airport experience that makes travelling more enjoyable. These are the contrasting potential visions of Pearson airport’s future that aviation experts offered Tuesday, after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his government plans to open up airports in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary to private investors. Carney unveiled his government’s intent to sell “long-term concessions” to run the country’s fou

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Andy Takagi

    Metrolinx report pulls back curtain on what led to GO train derailment outside Union Station (opens the original)

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    Inadequate visual inspections and track maintenance contributed to the derailment of a GO train outside of Union Station in February, a new report from Metrolinx has found — an incident that led to widespread delays across the regional network for days. A followup investigation by the provincial transit agency and its private maintenance contractor also found 40 other track defects in the surrounding area, the report noted. Much of the report builds upon what the agency initially reported

  3. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Andy Takagi, Sheila Reid

    Metrolinx boosted GO service for the FIFA World Cup. Now it’s short on train operators and commuters are feeling the service cuts (opens the original)

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    Increased GO service for the FIFA World Cup games in Toronto left Metrolinx without enough train operators for the fall, the CEO of the provincial transit agency said at a board meeting on Thursday. Metrolinx ran 30 per cent increased GO service for the World Cup, Michael Lindsay told the board. To do that, the agency and its private operations contractor Alstom had to take steps such as pausing vacation, as well as halting training and certification of operators, “in ways that now, this fall,

  4. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Andy Takagi

    Metrolinx CEO blames FIFA World Cup for cuts to GO service (opens the original)

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    Increased GO service for the FIFA World Cup games in Toronto left Metrolinx without enough train operators for the fall, the CEO of the provincial transit agency said at a board meeting on Thursday. To run the 30 per cent increased GO service Metrolinx ran for the World Cup, Michael Lindsay said the agency and its private operations contractor Alstom had to take steps such as pausing vacation, and halting training and certification of operators, “in ways that now, this fall, lead us to have to

  5. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Andy Takagi

    Former Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster joins federal government’s Alto high-speed rail project (opens the original)

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    Phil Verster, the once-embattled CEO of provincial transit agency Metrolinx, is making his return to Canadian transit. Verster will be joining the federal government’s Alto high-speed rail project as a consultant, the Crown corporation confirmed to the Star. “His work mainly focuses on helping us better understand GTA intermodal and regional transit dynamics, and how to integrate Alto’s HSR service with the existing local transit network,” said Alto spokesperson Caroline Des Rosiers. “His experi

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