Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster resigns after 7 years at transportation planning agency [Video]

Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster has resigned his role as the head of the transportation planning agency, the Ford government has announced, as the province faces consistent challenges in completing multiple transit projects.

A statement from the government said Verster had accepted a new position elsewhere and would leave as early as Dec. 16. It did not say where Verster was heading.

Michael Lindsay, who heads up Infrastructure Ontario, will take temporary charge of the massive transit agency.

News of Verster’s imminent departure began to spread on Monday morning, with suggestions he was ready to resign from the agency he headed up for more than half a decade and move on.

On Monday, Global News revealed Verster receives an annual vehicle allowance in excess of $12,000 despite not owning a car.

In a separate story, text messages disclosed by Verster through a freedom of information request to Global Newsrevealed that Doug Ford’s chief …