TTC: “No Major Disruptions at This Time”

by Joey deVilla on February 20, 2008

Night photo of Queen West fire
Photo by Colin McConnell, Toronto Star.
Click the photo to see it on its original page.

The six-alarm fire at Queen and Bathurst has caused massive disruptions to the Queen and Bathurst streetcar lines all morning, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the TTC’s service disruption web page:

TTC disruptions page screen capture, February 20th, 2008: “There are no major disruptions at this time.”

{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Jacquilynne February 20, 2008 at 10:01 am

That page seems to be only for the Subway, I don’t think it covers surface routes.

2 Susan February 20, 2008 at 10:44 am

St Patrick Station was definitely hickory smoked this morning.

3 Joey deVilla February 20, 2008 at 12:25 pm

@Jacquilynne: Good point!

I did a quick check of their Service Advisories page and there doesn’t seem to be any place where they announce surface route disruptions. There is a page for route diversions for things like road construction, but not for disruptions.

4 tbit February 20, 2008 at 2:48 pm

interesting how the monitors in the subway, as well as the person who updates City TV news, were listing the disruption to the expected ground routes, BUT when I hit Spadina Stn I was informed that the streetcars wouldn’t go south of College. They just snapped at us to “go take take the train…” Quite nastily too.

5 Wendy February 20, 2008 at 5:19 pm

I took the Spadina streetcar today and they didn’t manage to mention that it would be diverting at College until we were at Harbord. Lovely.

6 Adam February 21, 2008 at 12:52 pm

This has been a completely awful winter for TTC service. It makes me want to get a car.

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