Over 150km of Toronto-area transit will be closed this weekend

Approximately 154 kilometres of Toronto-area transit routes will be closed for the Victoria Day long weekend, including three entire lines and a large portion of a fourth.

It is shaping up to be a long weekend of disruption on the rails in and around Toronto, with major closures in store for the UP Express, Kitchener and Barrie GO Lines, and the TTC's Line 6 Finch West.

While subway and streetcar lines will all be running as planned during the busy spring holiday weekend, practically all other modes of rapid transit in Toronto will be impacted by the scheduled closures.

Here's everything you need to know about the rough weekend commute ahead:

Line 6 - Finch West

Service on the brand-new LRT line will shut down from May 15 through May 18, 2026, to accommodate "infrastructure and system improvement work," despite the line having opened just five months ago.

The entire 10.3-kilometre length of the route will be out of service for the entire long weekend, and anyone relying on this line will instead be crammed onto shuttle buses.

UP Express

The entire 23.3-kilometre UP Express route will also shut down from Saturday, May 16, through Monday, May 18, to accommodate planned construction for the future Woodbine GO and St. Clair–Old Weston Station.

GO buses will be deployed to replace trains, running a direct service between Pearson Airport Terminal 1 and Union Station Bus Terminal, without stopping at Bloor, Mount Dennis or Weston stations.

Metrolinx

Kitchener GO 

The single largest outage on tap for the long weekend is the shutdown of the entire Kitchener GO line, which stretches 102.7 kilometres. Service on the line will be halted May 16-18, with no trains travelling between Kitchener GO and Union Station.

GO buses will be in play, shuttling passengers to Kitchener, Guelph, Acton, Georgetown, Mount Pleasant, Brampton and Bramalea GO to the Highway407 Bus Terminal. The area south of the 407 will not be served, and commuters are instructed to transfer to the TTC's Line 1 and continue to Union Station via subway. 

Malton, Etobicoke North, Mount Dennis, Weston and Bloor GO stations will not be served during the outage.

Metrolinx

Barrie GO

A portion of the Barrie GO Line will also shut down May 16-18, with the halt of service on a roughly 17.3-kilometre stretch of the line spanning between Downsview Park GO and Union Station.

Metrolinx states that the closure is necessary to accommodate preliminary construction work for a future second track.

Metrolinx

So, good luck on the rails this weekend, Toronto. You'll need it.