Commuter chaos after huge stretch of TTC subway shuts down unexpectedly

A lengthy stretch of the TTC's Line 2 Bloor-Danforth is out of commission Tuesday morning, creating commuter chaos for those relying on the western end of the city's second-busiest transit route.

A whopping 6.75 kilometres of Line 2 was abruptly closed early Tuesday morning, and based on previous outages of this nature, commuters could be waiting quite a while for service to resume.

Just after 4:40 a.m. on Tuesday, the TTC announced that there would be no service on Line 2 between Jane and Kipling stations "while we fix a mechanical problem," adding that shuttle buses had been deployed.

The transit agency provided an update just after 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday, explaining that the outage had been extended to Keele, and attributing the disruption to "a hydraulic oil spill."

Line 2 Bloor-Danforth: No service between Keele and Kipling stations due to a hydraulic oil spill. Shuttle buses are running between Keele and Kipling

— TTC Service Alerts (@TTCnotices) April 7, 2026

For those well-versed in TTC outages, this abrupt closure is dredging up memories of lengthy closures due to oil spills, including two significant outages in 2024 that wreaked havoc on the network.

This is a developing story.