Metrolinx

Metrolinx was created by the Ontario government in 2006 to address a longstanding coordination problem: transit planning across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area was split among the TTC and numerous separate municipal and regional transit agencies with little formal coordination on fares, routes or long-term expansion planning between them. The new provincial agency was given a mandate to develop a unified regional transportation plan spanning the entire fragmented system.

Absorbing GO Transit and taking on the subway

Metrolinx absorbed GO Transit in 2009, giving it direct operational control over the region's commuter rail and bus network alongside its planning role, and later took direct responsibility for major new subway projects including the Eglinton Crosstown and the Ontario Line, shifting significant transit infrastructure authority away from the City of Toronto and the TTC toward the province. That expanded provincial role has made Metrolinx one of the more consequential, and at times politically contested, transit institutions in the region's recent history.

Sources

• Metrolinx — About us
• Wikipedia — Metrolinx

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