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Andy Byford,CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission for the last five years and a previous transit top executive in London and Sydney, Australia, has been selected as president of the New York City Transit Authority, effective in January.
Announced by parent agency the Metropolitan Transit Authority on Nov. 21, he will run the city's subways, buses, paratransit services and the Staten Island Railway. Byford replace Darryl C. Irick, who was named acting president in February.
MTA表示，该运输局最近的常任总统是Veronique“ Ronnie” Hakim，于2015年命名。她于8月成为MTA董事总经理。
While TTC is Canada's most heavily used urban mass transit system with 1.8 million daily riders, and the third largest in North America, Byford will take over a system with an average daily ridership of more than 7.7 million.
The 52-year-old executive also joins the New York City agency as it faces rising criticism over aging infrastructure and challenges in funding needed service upgrades, which have often become political issues between Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
But Byford may be used to that. According to a Toronto Star report,他比预期的要早从TTC首席运营官到他的前任被解雇后，从TTC首席运营官到最高工作。
该机构在一份声明中说，在纽约市，Byford将管理MTA的地铁行动计划，该计划“稳定，现代化和改善我们的过境系统”。8.36亿美元的努力资金不足。
“We are thrilled that Andy is going to lead NYC Transit during this time of great change,” MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said. At a Toronto press briefing announcing his departure, Byford acknowledged that his new role "is arguably the toughest job in transit right now.”
MTA归功于拜福德（Byford），因为多伦多公共交通系统的“复兴”。它说，他“领导了几项杰出的举措，包括制定旨在完全现代化该系统的公司计划的制定 - 启动了分阶段的信号系统升级并减少了地铁延迟。下个月完成的是新的地铁线扩展名。
美国公共交通协会将TTC命名为2017年杰出运输系统。
虽然MTA表示Byford的选择“是在广泛而国际的搜索之后”，但他被代理商和地方官员众所周知，该机构去年被选为一项小组，该小组提出了国际最佳实践，并于2014年命名为MTA所谓的“重新发明委员会”Cuomo通过现代化和改善区域运输。然而，《纽约时报》说：“尽管提出了现在被认为是必不可少的建议，例如投资基础设施，但委员会的调查结果在很大程度上被忽略了。”
TTC noted that Byford brought in international talent into executive agency roles and said that women filled half of those positions, which media said was a recent change.
Says one industry executive in Toronto, Byford "did a great job in a difficult and financially constrained environment. His statement of his accomplishments while at TTC has the additional benefit of being true."
代替拜福德（Byford）代理TTC负责人是副首席执行官Rick Leary代理商主席乔什·科尔（Josh Colle）表示，任命的任命很快就会批准董事会批准。TTC表示，预计将在7月1日命名永久替代者一年，媒体报告。
Also, the Toronto Region Board of Trade, in a report released Nov. 27, says Ontario should take over city transit systems such as TTC, arguing that a provincial-run agency "would benefit transit riders and municipal governments by reducing the risk of politics interfering in the delivery of evidence-based projects and freeing up cities to spend resources on other priorities."
