TTC to shut down over 7 kilometres of subway for this entire weekend

TTC subway closures this weekend will cut off the east end of the city from rapid transit service, with over seven kilometres of track to be shut down on May 23 and 24, 2026.

The transit agency has announced a full weekend closure that will span between Kennedy and Woodbine stations on the Line 2 Bloor-Danforth. 

With the Line 3 Scarborough RT long-closed and the new Scarborough Busway still a few months away, the closure will leave residents in the east end of the city with little more than shuttle bus service or GO Transit to get in and out of the city centre.

The closure is attributed to planned track work on Line 2, something TTC riders have been hearing a lot about lately.

The weekend closure will be bookended by two weeks of early nightly closures along the same stretch of Line 2. This section of track will close early each night at 11:59 p.m. from Tuesday, May 19 to Friday, May 22, 2026 and again from Monday, May 25 to Friday, May 29, 2026.

A closure along this stretch was initially planned for the weekend of Friday, May 8, to Saturday, May 9, 2026, before the TTC quietly removed its outage notice and replaced it with a closure of Line 2 between Kipling and Jane.

It seems that deferred work is now being pushed forward as the transit agency scrambles to clear its backlog of work before the FIFA World Cup arrives in Toronto in just a few weeks.

Warden Station will be fully closed for the duration of the weekend, though all other stations affected by the closure will remain open for commuters to purchase fares, reload cards, and connect with surface transit.

Train service will resume on Monday, May 25.