Regular TTC subway service has resumed on Line 2 after an earlier closure between St. George and Broadview stations caused by a lubricant that compromised safety on the tracks.
All trains started running again shortly after 8 a.m. after an outage that lasted more than 90 minutes.
The service shutdown was the result of a “lubricant that is intentionally applied to keep track joints flexible making its way on to the top of the track,” the transit agency said.
“We’ll investigate how.”
The fluid needed to be cleaned off the tracks “out of abundance of caution,” the TTC said.
A spill of hydraulic fluid from a maintenance vehicle similarly closed the same stretch of Line 2 back in May, causing a morning of commuter chaos for thousands of customers. In that instance, it took several hours for the spill to be cleaned up.
At the time, TTC leadership said the agency was launching a review of the root causes behind the service outage, noting there had been seven such spills in 2024 alone.