Robert McBride, P.Eng., MCIP, RPP
President
Robert is a senior transportation planning and engineering consultant, who has been with BA Group since 1975, and has served as its Chief Executive since 1991. To every project, Robert applies thirty-five years’ experience as a project director, providing creative and practical solutions to complex urban transportation challenges.
Robert’s services include: regional and city transportation planning; physical and financial planning for transportation infrastructure projects; and planning for urban development, site access, circulation, parking, and loading.
Robert has served as the Senior Transportation Consultant on the Amman Master Plan team. The Greater Amman Municipality of Jordan was awarded the 2007 World Leadership Award for Town Planning in recognition of the Master Plan. In 2010, Amman began implementation of the rapid transit concept articulated in the Master Plan.
Robert had the privilege to serve as transportation consultant for the successful bid for the 2015 Pan Am Games for the Greater Toronto Area and Toronto’s 2008 Olympics and Paralympics Games bid. He has advised extensively for many years on Toronto’s waterfront, working closely with the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, the Waterfront Regeneration Trust, the Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront, and the City of Toronto.
Robert is a Professional Engineer in Ontario (designated as a Consulting Engineer since 1987), a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners, and a Registered Professional Planner.
Robert has served as Chair of the Greater Toronto Transportation Conference, and President of the Toronto Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and currently serves as President of Simcoe (Toronto) Chapter of Lambda Alpha International (an Honorary Society for the Advancement of Land Economics).