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Delays up to 15 minutes on TTC’s Line 1 due to signal problem

TTC riders may see delays up to 15 minutes on Line 1 between Finch and Queen’s Park due to an earlier signal problem, the transit agency said in a post on X on Tuesday morning. 

“We appreciate your patience while we restore regular service,” the TTC said. 

Service was shut down early Tuesday morning between the two stations but has since resumed with these delays. 

Riders travelling northbound from Eglinton to Finch stations may see delays of up to 10 minutes, the TTC said. 

Unclear if signal issues are weather related: CEO 

Interim TTC CEO Greg Percy said a zone controller, which tracks where trains are located, went down around 5:40 a.m on Tuesday and was back up around 6 a.m. 

Delays are continuing Tuesday morning because the trains have to be “re-established on the zone controller,” he said during an interview with CBC Radio’s Metro Morning

The TTC did a root cause analysis on persistent signal issues that caused a string of delays in early December, Percy said. 

“We thought we had it fixed,” he said. “We don’t know if it’s the same problem or not, and we don’t know if it’s weather related or not at this stage.”

Percy said Toronto has seen a “highly unusual” stretch of subzero temperatures, following back-to-back winter storms that walloped the city with more than 50 cm of snow starting Feb. 12. 

“When you combine that much snow with extreme cold temperatures, that’s when things start to break,” he said.

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