Metrolinx partnership to offer faster, more frequent train service ends 2 decades early [Video]

Provincial transit agency Metrolinx has parted ways with the consortium it tapped barely a year ago to lead an overhaul of how its network operates to create “faster, more frequent” train service.

In January 2024, Metrolinx announced it had accepted a proposal from ONXpress — made up of German train operator Deutsche Bahn and Canadian Aecon Concessions — to plan and run its rail system.

ONXpress was set to begin operating and maintaining GO train systems beginning in January 2025. The group was also tasked with offering better, faster train service as Ontario converts the GO network to run a more efficient, electric fleet.

The Ford government said the agreement with ONXpress — which was unveiled in 2022 — would “modernize and transform” the rail network.

Just months after they were supposed to have taken over GO operations, however, Deutsche Bahn and Canadian Aecon Concessions parted ways with Metrolinx.

“ONxpress Operations Inc. was awarded …