TTC descends into chaos for third time this week and anger is growing

It's been a bad few days for the TTC's Line 2 Bloor-Danforth, with Toronto's second-busiest subway line suffering its third major unplanned outage this week to kick off Friday.

The TTC announced just after 5:30 a.m. there service had been halted on Line 2 between Ossington and Woodbine stations due to a "hydraulic fluid spill" — marking the second oil-related service outage and the third unplanned closure of Line 2 this week.

While the outage was resolved by 7:47 a.m., the outage and accompanying deployment of shuttle buses were met with a wave of anger on social media as commuters relying on Line 2 face the third major outage since Tuesday.

Is this a repost from 2 days ago? Or did you guys send out the same leaky train? What a joke, April fools was over a week ago c'mon. No CEO apologies please, action!

— John Ditomasso (@john_ditomasso) April 10, 2026

Frustration is growing after Friday's outage, which follows the abrupt closure of a 6.75-kilometre section of Line 2 early Tuesday morning due to a hydraulic oil spill, and a Thursday outage spanning Broadview to Victoria Park stations that was attributed to "signal related issues at Woodbine Station."

The two disruptive outages just two days apart had already tested the patience of commuters, and despite an apology from TTC CEO Mandeep Lali for the previous shutdown on Tuesday, commuters' fuses were already concerningly short by the time Friday morning's outage struck.

The TTC needs to get their sh*t together pic.twitter.com/fg1z2EDQ5k

— Felix (@AlwaysCanadian1) April 9, 2026

"The ttc is the worst, fix the signal issues this happens all the time," wrote one commenter.

While transit has resumed on Line 2, more disruption is ahead with a planned weekend closure that will shutter more than five kilometres of the route between Keele and St George stations.