Former New York, London transit exec tapped to lead Toronto Transit Commission

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 05, 2025 11:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The incoming CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission says helium hopes to leverage his acquisition moving for 2 of the largest transit agencies successful the satellite to marque the TTC the astir reliable transit strategy successful North America. 

Mandeep Lali was announced arsenic the TTC's prime to beryllium the caller CEO astatine a quality league successful Scarborough Thursday. 

"My imaginativeness for the TTC is to beryllium satellite people — satellite people successful safety, reliability, affordability and accessibility," Lali said Thursday.

"Those are each basics of which are fundamentals of a large proscription system."

Lali was antecedently an enforcement astatine New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), serving arsenic enforcement vice-president and main operating serviceman of subways for the largest transit bureau successful North America. 

Prior to that, helium spent implicit a 13 years astatine Transport for London. 

He'll beryllium taking implicit the relation from Rick Leary, who retired astatine the extremity of August past year. 

Lali was tapped to instrumentality the helm of the city's transit committee aft an extended planetary hunt that lasted adjacent to 9 months, said TTC committee seat Jamaal Myers astatine Thursday's quality conference. 

"When we asked him what his extremity for the TTC was, helium said, without missing a beat, to marque the TTC the astir reliable transit strategy successful North America," Myers said. 

"As a lifelong TTC rider this was euphony to my ears. It's what each Torontonian wants to hear."

Lali officially takes implicit the relation connected July 7.