Sinkhole opens up at busy downtown Toronto intersection that closed earlier this year
CBC
City of Toronto crews are working to repair a sinkhole that's opened up at a busy intersection in the financial district.
The crater is located on the north-south crosswalk on the east side of King Street West at University Avenue. It's about a metre long, half a metre wide and is deep enough to fit a beer keg.
Pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and bus drivers could all be seen manoeuvring around the sinkhole during morning traffic on Tuesday.
"This is awful. It's really scary, actually, for me," said Carole Rosenstein, as she attempted to hail a cab after leaving a dentist appointment nearby.
"I have a walker ... I would walk around it. But other people might not even see it."
Maxwell Johnson, who works in the area, said the sinkhole shows the declining state of city infrastructure.
"The construction has been neglected for a long time," he said. "It's something that we need to take care of as soon as possible."
The same intersection was closed for two weeks earlier this year after a water main burst, bringing vehicle traffic and transit through the intersection to a halt.
According to a Feb. 3 news release, the city discovered the break on Jan. 21.
"City crews worked around the clock to repair 25 metres of a 300-millimetre diameter water main and to fill a void that was created under TTC tracks due to the water main break," the release said.
The work saw the replacement of a cast-iron pipe that was originally installed 140 years ago, a spokesperson for Toronto Water told CBC Toronto at the time. Work was completed, roads reopened and transit resumed by Feb. 3.
Bijoy Benny said he walks by the intersection every day on his way to work.
"The road was blocked for two weeks. All the drivers were suffering a lot," he said.
"This is the busiest road in this area and it's not supposed to be like this. The authorities should ... take the necessary actions for this in future."
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