Slew of full weekend closures planned for 2025 across Toronto’s aging subway network
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The TTC unveiled its capital plan for 2025 on Monday, complete with details of how often the spine of the city's transit network would be closed for days at a time.
The coming year will bring a slew of new full weekend closures to subway stops around Toronto as the city tries to keep its aging transit system in shape, install new cell service and construction continues on new projects.
The TTC unveiled its capital plan for 2025 in a presentation on Monday, complete with details of how often the spine of the city’s transit network would be closed for days at a time.
In total, the TTC is planning to implement 26 full weekend closures on Line 1: Yonge-University. They include four closures for state-of-good repair, 13 for engineering work and nine to accommodate work on the planned Ontario Line.
On Line 2: Bloor Danforth, the agency is planning 23 full weekend closures, six of which will be for Rogers to install the infrastructure needed to handle a new 5G cell network for its customers in subway tunnels. Other closures on that line are for state-of-good repair, engineering work, automatic train control and the Scarborough Subway Extension.
The shutdowns are an increase from the 25 full weekend closures implemented through 2024, according to a report that will go before the TTC board.
One of the reasons the TTC favours closing sections of its subway for the entire weekend is the amount of time it offers to work on the tracks.
Every night, there are 90 minutes of what the agency calls tool time — a period when trains are no longer running and workers can make fixes. Closing a section for the entire weekend equates to five nights’ of work, the TTC said.
The planned closures for 2025 come after a year where so-called slow zones, introduced due to aging infrastructure, added to commute times on both Line 1 and Line 2.
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