Side story: in 2011-14 I worked for a company that was responsible for doing core samples, and traffic control for metrolinx, the amount of times their geological technicians confirmed a spot for drillers to drill, and hit a watermain, or underground cables was mind baffling. There were even times when the drillers would try and say no this is not the correct spot to drill, and a white helmet pencil holding metrolinx employee would show up and tell them to drill where told. One day I was removed from the project site because a woman from metrolinx told me I had to be a crossing guard for a local high school, because we had construction going on near the school, That was not in my job description, and I had multiple sites to visit that day, So I asked one of our actual traffic control employees to handle the cross walk. Metrolinx lady (Im withholding her name here) did not like the fact that I wouldn't do it, so she contacted the owner of our company directly, and had me removed from the site. I lost the job shortly after because it was the primary contract our small scab company was doing. Absolute shit show, I can only sit back and laugh while being a bit upset being a Torontonian that would use this line often.

The corruption in Canadas construction industry is disgusting. The owners of these contractor companies become Rich while the tax payers get screwed. But what do I know im just a laborer in Ontario's biggest labor union local 183.

An ordinary worker apologizes for a mistake and gets fired. An incredibly rich construction CEO making 870k a year apologizes and nothing happens. Fire this jerk

The most impressive demonstration of incapability, lack of commitment, accountability, responsibilities and so on and so forth, and yet he still in charge with a huge salary in his pocket.

how the hell can they just operate without a deadline does he not realize this is a public project that is funded by the public? it’s shameful for him to come up and just say there are issues to be fixed like it isn’t metrolinx at fault.

This company should refund us tax payers the full amount they have stolen from us

So you’re telling me no one did Quality control during any stage of the project? Can they not do a weekly report and complete in stages?

Dissolve this useless incompetent organization

Being living for 25 years in this city . And the Eglinton construction being going for 20 years around specially Allen Rd ., this proyect is the cherry on the top ……… the CEO never say when it is gonna be open .

"We're not gonna focus on which year it is"... dude can't even commit to a year in the near future? Jeez

Grow some balls and hold Crosslinx to account!

Why not buy that from China? Hong Kong does better than this by far. This is ending up like the Sydney Opera House. Now that schedule has failed the project. How is it on budget?

0:54 "... we're not going to guess which year it is ..." 🤦‍♂

Sad to see what's happening to this country.

Tokyo has a massive $30 billion dollar infrastructure project on the go and Toronto can't even get a light rail line built. What a pathetic excuse for a "major" city it is.

You know they're working hard because the hardhats are on.

We paid for it once

In Japan this would only take a 8-10 months minimum 1 year max. Embarrassing.

He should resign

In a proper country he would be in jail by now for wasting taxpayers money

So he admitted the track was laid down inaccurately somehow, and that it was repaired. Something like that is a huge delay, he also mentioned signalling system needs tuning and that’s unacceptable. That system is based mostly on sensors and it shouldn’t be causing problems already. This South African better be yelling at people on the job

It sounds like Metrolinx bit of more than they can chew with this project and should have focused on getting a partial completetion done then trying to get it fully completed. This way they can address the problems of the most problematic parts after the system is partially running, and then continue down the line until each part is fully completed and operational. As we set on getting rid of Trudeau and Ford I hope the next government doesn't continue to allow Metroxlinx to take on big projects they cannot complete on time but only give them smaller projects to do.

Remember when Rob Ford made arguements that the construction of a crosstown LRT would cause 5-10 years of extreme congestion in the city and was a terrible idea to try and budget for? but everyone was too busy focused on the fact that he had addiction problems? I remember. Memba berries remember, pepperidge farms remembas

What a joke maybe for the 2026 world cup?

Defund CBC

A ceo can’t answer when this will get done. lol. Imagine a public company ceo said this during an analyst call. It would tank stocks.

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If I ran my multi million dollar projects like this, I’d be fired.

I'm just happy gta 6 will come out before this shtshow comes live

This poor bastard has to take the lump at the media level, but someone needs to be fired immediately....no questions asked....this is 1000% unacceptable.....!!!!!!!!!!

Total corruption, sick and tired of these people going over budget and wasting taxpayers money. If you can’t do the job, you should be fired.

Yeah keep digging into our pockets. Get rid of him.

Could they also aplologize for all of their annoying PSAs in my podcasts?

All I heard from this guy was blah, blah, blah, blah I know nothing else. I'm incompetent so don't ask me about anything. I should resign but I won't. I'm a CEO, you don't really expect me to do anything but collect my paycheck do you ? That's what CEOs are for, to steal the most money out of a project and do no work.

So the trains will only be operational during the summer? They didn’t use any winter proof materials to build these tracks and stations? BAHAHAHAHA!!!! They cut corners and used cheap non winter resistant materials 😂 this is too much

The LRT is complete joke! The CEO is a clown, Doug Ford lost everyones trust in Ontario, all these projects should have been done 30 years ago if not more...

Verster definitely accountable to unacceptable delays. I am sure it is coincides with higher fares by Metrolinx to cover the fines & legal fees.

You're not going to guess? Why stop now.....This whole project is one big guess lol

Don’t focus on the year? JFC how much longer do you need?

According to the Ontario "Sunshine List", this incompetent tool made $856,552 in 2022. In 2018 (his first full year in this position) he made $506,280. Nice pay increases.

I hope that he is not announcing his retirement soon and he could let this project inconclusive. After all those years with not transparency how this project is running, at this point everything could happen.

Jokes!!! We should employ Chinese railway to fix our problem Cos we can’t clearly!!!! 👀😂😅🤣🤣🤷🏾‍♂️ 10 fucking years!!!!!!

The work team is unprofessional and the work carried out is not according to specifications or code, and those responsible must resign and bear the mistakes

Just another rip off. Just like line 4. That cost millions just like this crap. How much are these criminals pocketing?.

What this guy said is just politically correct, but useless.

I swear its like reporters are slow. Lets ask the same question 5 different ways and get the same answer 😂

The wheels on the tram 🚊 go round and roundabout

this will be ready maybe 2025

What station is this at😊

Who doing geodetic?

The issue is why the LRT has defects and not built properly… and people need to remember that any subway or major LRT project takes 8-12 years

0:29 look at that confident ass face.

What a joke. A crew of people built a whole railway system across this country faster than this company can build a little system. Pathetic.

BLA, BLA, BLA...... What a shame !!!..... This guys from METROLINX seems to come from the same mold than Trudeau and Freeland!

corruption at its finest.

Corruption, stills money from city hall

Incompetence.

What about electricity? Bitcoin!

Has this been a cyber attack ?

Why finish it that’s finishing the corruption

Can you all repeat after me, washing machine. $$$$$

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Good bye metropolis of old.

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That’s what you get when you hire the least expensive contractors. You get what you pay for! I feel bad for the businesses that closed because of the construction and the inconvenience the local residents had to put up with all these years. Metrolinx, close up shop and let real companies do any future projects.

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