Minnan-Wong Goes After Giambrone On TTC Cost Overruns
Jan 21, 2010 | admin | 2
Ward 34 Councillor and rumoured mayoralty candidate Denzil Minnan-Wong has called on TTC Chair and potential opponent Adam Giambrone to take responsibility for the St. Clair Right-Of-Way cost overruns and resign:
“Quite frankly the TTC management group is not being paid to learn on the job,” said Minnan-Wong at Wednesday’s meeting of the Toronto Transit Commission. “This is why through careful consideration I’m calling today for the resignation of the chair and the chief general manager. The chair laughs, but I tell the public this: there has to be accountability. Someone has to take responsibility.”
Minnan-Wong made the statements as the commission was dealing with a forensic report looking in to what went wrong with the St. Clair line – and how the city can do better when it constructs similar, longer light rail lines in the Transit City project.”
Read the rest of the article here.
Related: City’s transit planners are slow to learn (Toronto Star)
And: TTC the better way? Ask the riders: Levy (Toronto Sun)
Also: TTC chief faces call to resign (National Post)
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Adam Giambrone can laugh it off all he wants, but this is a serious issue. All signs point to him making Transit City a focal point of his Mayoralty campaign. He has to be able to defend his record on St Clair if he wants to have any credibility on the issue.
Based on yesterday's photo maybe Adam Giambrone should personally go from station to station waking up TTC employees.