Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the UK capital’s transport commissioner, Andy Byford, will leave the organisation next month.
Byford will depart TfL at the end of October, having joined in June 2020.
During his tenure, Byford oversaw the opening of the Elizabeth line, helped to deliver a long-term funding agreement for TfL with the UK government, and oversaw the creation of a new organisational structure at TfL.
Prior to his role at TfL, Byford was president of New York City Transit, and it is to the USA that he will return after a transport career that has spanned 33 years.
Byford said: “It has been a huge privilege to have served as commissioner, back where I first started as a station foreman.
“I have been blessed to have had such an amazing transport and public service journey and now is the right time to bow out and resume life in the USA with my wife.”
TfL’s current chief operating officer Andy Lord will take on the role of commissioner on an interim basis from 25 October.
