TTC Service Suspended on Bloor Subway Line during Rush Hour

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Toronto Transit Commission confirmed on Tuesday morning that a major section of Toronto’s Bloor subway line has been shut down due to “track-related issues.” Officials suspended the service both ways at the Bloor line from between Keele and St. George stations at around 8 a.m. on Tuesday.

Although TTC warned that the delay had “no expected clearing time,” several stations were reopened by 9:30 a.m., though service remained suspended between Keele and Ossington stations. According to TTC spokesperson, Jessica Martin, a subway operator reported debris on the tracks at Dundas West station, which resulted in transit control to cut power and send investigators to the scene. Upon arrival, investigators discovered “a bit of mud and water” on the tracks and awaited a work car that arrived at around 10:30 a.m. Martin acknowledged that the delay was caused during “peak rush,” i.e. a time when subways run every one to two minutes, carrying 1,200 people each. She alleged that “with debris at track level, we need to know where it came from,” adding that “safety is our first priority so we need to cut power and not bring passengers through the tunnel until we determine what the source [of the debris] is.”

Commuters posted photos on Twitter showing swaths of people attempting to funnel out from subway platforms to waiting shuttle buses. One such disrupted commuter, Joan Lillian Wilson, mentioned at a photo showing hundreds of commuters stuck at the doors of a TTC station that this is “proof of why transit is the main topic of this election.”