www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-service-disruption-update-1.7205274
More and more people know his name. For the head of any transit org that is not a good thing.
Andy put his own name out there and wanted people to know who he was.
Andy was a different breed. Loved seeing him riding the train so often and talking to people
He actually seemed to give a fuck.
That alone did quite a bit for the overall morale and attitude of the organization as a whole.
Andy Byford was as close as we ever got to “old man Patterson” with his “finger on the button.”
what button!?
“You’re all screwed. Goodbye!”
By the way are you on the simpsons sub? The entire place is just like this exchange
I feel that Toronto is canadas stand-in for Springfield some days
He’s right. He ain’t much for speeches
I don't know how many CEOs that would pick up garbage with their hands on their way to work instead of leaving it for the cleaners.
He's a rare breed and actually cares about his work. Too bad he had to deal with Toronto and NYC politics/unions handcuffing him, instead of just allowing him to do his job and improving transit for EVERYONE.
For that salary, it’s utterly fucking outrageous that anyone in that position isn’t busting their ass to do everything they can to improve things.
He reveals now that there has been 7 hydraulic fluid incidents since January.
But somehow they didn’t have effective protocols to address it and instead pushed a leaking work train from Spadina all the way to Greenwood. But don’t worry, that same guy who oversaw that shitty protocol will also pick a third party to investigate!
This level of incompetence from a CEO is ridiculous. He needs to be fired.
Leary said he was made aware of these recurring leaks in late April.
Oh, fuck off.
In true Leary form he was made aware of a problem and chose to ignore it until it blew up the system.
I give it two weeks, tops, before there's another rush-hour outage that makes headlines with a photo of 10,000 people in an enormous crowd standing around outside a subway station wondering if this is the day they get fired for being late for work again.
Two weeks? I give it one.
And yet Toronto City Council and the TTC Board keep protecting the man in charge of all these problems: Rick Leary. It's crazy how in the City of Toronto these upper managers can ruin the systems they're in charge of, potentially to the point of residents losing their jobs because of it, just to keep their job and see no repercussions for their managerial decisions.
How are they protecting him? They already tried to fire him but the rookie TTC chair made a procedural error.
Procedural error? There was no explanation given as to why the leadership review failed.
I mean the explanation was they didn’t have enough votes to pass it because 2 board members weren’t there and I’m fairly certain they didn’t have quorum to move the motion but I might be mistaken.
It’s a bit weird someone claiming the board and council are protecting also seems to acknowledge there was a leadership review too. How’s that reconcile?
Couldn’t come out of his hole on Monday or Tuesday to apologize. The only reason anyone saw him today is there’s a TTC board meeting that he can’t duck. Really hope the board is getting fed up with him because I’m certain many in the public already are.
At last month's TTC board meeting, the head of the transit workers union raised questions about a hydraulic fuel spill on subway tracks that limited the ability to slow trains. Marvin Alfred, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Unit 113, called on the TTC board to launch a "full and independent review" of the agency's safety and maintenance practices.
"The connecting theme linking all these incidents is TTC management prioritizing statistics and savings over providing a consistently safe and unreliable service," he said. "The culture of secrecy of the TTC is preventing the full story from coming out."
Oh my fucking god. So Leary couldn't be fucking bothered to speak to the media on Monday about what happened, despite being the CEO. Council and the members of the TTC board are obviously getting sick of him, and the fucking TTC union had to go to a board meeting just to bring up that something was wrong with the hydraulic systems on TTC maintenance equipment, but we keep this bastard around? When will the decision makers at City Hall admit that the problem here is Rick Leary?
He’s not the only problem, but good fucking Christ is he a big one.
Why isn’t this front page of the Toronto Star? He has a history of running unsafe systems.
savings over providing a consistently safe and unreliable service,
???
Two seperate thoughts.
They choose savings over a consistently safe service, while its unreliable due to failing parts.
I know it sounds weird, as if he's saying he wants unreliable service, but the reality is that right now that's what we have.
We need better transit priority in the city with investment to make it reliable and safe.
Fuck off ricky
Useless CEO. Should be fired.
Every time there is an outage, CEO needs to have his/her salary deducted.
If the TTC is up 76% of the time then the CEO gets 76% of his pay.
I see that uve been living in Toronto for too long to have such low expectations. City services should be up at least near 98% uptime. Less than 95% he should get 0% of his salary.
Japan would issue an apology if the train is 5 min late.
Due would just change the metric so that any service showing up within a 24 hours of the schedule would be counted as on time.
I agree with your premise though.
Dude would be at a negative salary in a month’s time!
Maybe he needs to work harder?
Whoa whoa whoa… let’s not go nuts.
Fuck off Rick.
Rick Leary needs to be ousted. Enough is enough at this point. I'm so sick and tired of this absolutely waste-of-a-human POS. Andy Byford would never...
Maybe if they actually rode the TTC they would make necessary changes.
If I were Olivia Chow, I’d make it mandatory that the entire board of the TTC has to use it exclusively.
I don't want an apology, I want a resignation at least. Leary is incompetent as incompetent gets.
Fire him.
Apologize for a lot more than that and then fix it. You've pissed people off enough that they actually know your name Rick Leary
Leary needs to go. we deserve a CEO who actually gives a damn
And through all this. He's had his salary doubled in the last 4 years.
The most outrageous thing is they didn’t used to do maintenance on the subway lines over the long weekend.
There’s no subway service from St Clair to Sheppard - Yonge Sat/Sun this weekend. https://www.ttc.ca/service-advisories/subway-service/St-Clair-to-SheppardYonge-full-weekend-closure-May-18-and-19-2024
If we’re essentially paying his salary through our tax dollars, we deserve to have better leadership.
And it’s a very big salary indeed
It's always a case of apologies from the TTC. They should issue refunds based on the constant inconveniences.
They only care about the weekday outages cuz those big corps downtown will complain to the city if people don’t show up because of ttc. They will never apologizes for the outages on weekends, pretty much every weekend, cuz no one cares about your complaint that u missed ur important personal plans.
"This is very uncommon in our business," Leary said. Each leak took place in a different location and they did not all cause service disruptions, he said.
So he admits he knew about the leaks, and then admits he CHOSE not to cause service disruptions and hoped it wasn't serious enough to cause problems.
I'm sure when the train operators made the call, he was ready to have them reassigned.
How many times in the past have trains slipped or failed to stop because of these leaks? Wasn't there an incident on line 2 in recent years related to trains derailing in the tunnels or near a station? Was a leak also related?
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Nevermind, turns out it was just failure to do maintenance that led to derailment
Uh huh. Sure he will.
That photo is a collector's item: a TTC Supervisor actually on the street quarterbacking a problem!
His apology should be a resignation. Like Japanese CEO style
You know what didn’t have an outage on Monday? My car
The problem with hiring Americans is that they don't know Canadian holidays
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Of course he does, now that there's public pressure to get rid of him.