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Part Of Subway Likely To Stay Closed Until Tuesday After Fatal Accident
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| m2j |
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Part Of Subway Likely To Stay Closed Until Tuesday After Fatal Accident
Monday April 23, 2007
It was a terrible start to a terrible day for commuters and workers at the TTC.
And it's now possible riders may experience a rerun on Tuesday morning, after a fatal accident shut down several key stations on the Yonge-University subway line early Monday.
It happened at 5am, just before the system was reopened for the morning rush.
An 11-man crew was cleaning asbestos from a tunnel between Eglinton and Lawrence station when something went horribly wrong.
At the end of their shift, the men were riding back to the Davisville yard in their work car when it appears there was some kind of collision between the vehicle and something on the side of the tunnel wall, causing major damage and resulting in the devastating mishap.
"At some point on that trip back a piece of equipment made contact with our tunnel wall," outlines TTC chair Adam Giambrone. "That ripped out a piece of cable we think. There are a number of pieces ... that destabilized the car.
"Once the car was destabilized it made further contact with the tunnel wall and a piece of equipment that was actually on the flatbed truck, one of the pieces used to allow the worker to get up close to the tunnel walls to scrape some of the asbestos away, actually dislodged, crashed into the car that was right behind it.
"That's where the operator was located and that's what caused the huge bulk of the damage."
One of the workers was killed in the mishap, two more were seriously hurt and sent to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre for treatment.
The result: stations were closed from York Mills to Eglinton, and commuters were forced into emergency mode.
"Something went wrong, and this is part of the investigation that's going on right now," Giambrone admits. "Obviously this isn't supposed to happen."
The shutdown resulted in two rush hours without service, an unprecedented disruption for the Red Rocket.
It took hours for crews to reach the worker's body. TTC officials held a huge tarp as a curtain so prying cameras couldn't see the victim's remains as they were removed from the tunnel and brought above ground around 2pm.
Many of the remaining members of the crew involved collapsed into tears when they discovered they'd lost a colleague and a friend, described by Giambrone as a longtime employee who'd earned many commendations with the transit system.
His name hasn't been released and grief counsellors were brought in to console the survivors.
Police, TTC, fire officials and the provincial Ministry of Labour were all on scene investigating the mishap.
They don't believe the tunnel itself was damaged, but because of the fatality, the exposure of asbestos, and the overall repair that may be needed, the TTC admits it's possible the stations involved will remain off limits until at least Tuesday.
The subway carries over a million passengers a day and the effects on the already crowded rush hours in the city were instantaneous.
Hundreds of thousands were inconvenienced, forced onto shuttle buses that could only carry a fraction of the load. |
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whoa... :nervous: |
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| smuncky |
took me 2 hours to get from finch to dundas in the afternoon and 1 hour from union to finch.
although i must say i gotta give the ttc credit for handling it very well and having signs up and directing people. very organized at the time i went (2.30pm)
hopefully it wasnt madness in the AM rush. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
took me 2 hours to get from finch to dundas in the afternoon and 1 hour from union to finch.
although i must say i gotta give the ttc credit for handling it very well and having signs up and directing people. very organized at the time i went (2.30pm)
hopefully it wasnt madness in the AM rush. |
why not just go to Finch downt to Sheppard, take 196B or 84 to Donwsview and then down? or was it super busy there too? |
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| MikeyN |
when i got to the MTCC to write my exam this morning it was pretty dead all until quarter to 8, and im guessing this is why, the lakeshore was closed as well so everyone hopped on the Gardiner, and the disrupted subway service only added to that.
smuncky you go to ryerson ? |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
why not just go to Finch downt to Sheppard, take 196B or 84 to Donwsview and then down? or was it super busy there too? |
the thing was, they had shuttle busses going from yokr mills to eglinton. but the traffic was so packed on yonge cuz of this incident. wat they did was close the right southbound lane during ilke 3pm and it was just bottlenecked. stood there crawling inch by inch for about 20 min. and trust me, it wouldve been longer if i wouldve taken the sheppard, then subway to spadina, the tranfer so many times. first to the BD line, then back on the YUS. blah no way.
| quote: | Originally posted by MikeyN
when i got to the MTCC to write my exam this morning it was pretty dead all until quarter to 8, and im guessing this is why, the lakeshore was closed as well so everyone hopped on the Gardiner, and the disrupted subway service only added to that.
smuncky you go to ryerson ? |
yeh man. architecture. had an exam today at the MTCC at 7pm. gonna have another exam tom. at 3pm, but itll be in my building.
funny that i met pavel as i walked out lol.
ps...ur one of the very few ppl who spelled my name right. :) |
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| Pett |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Poor guy. |
+1 My dad was one of the first on scene responding to this incident,
said he never had a chance.
Watching the news with my dad tonight he got pretty upset at the peoples comments "ttc sucks" ect. ect. no respect, pure selfishness. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
ps...ur one of the very few ppl who spelled my name right. :) |
it's Alex Soloviev, ha! beat that :P |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by Pett
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Watching the news with my dad tonight he got pretty upset at the peoples comments "ttc sucks" ect. ect. no respect, pure selfishness. |
i hate ppl bad mouthing the TTC when they know nothing about how it works or wat it takes to run a system like that.
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
it's Alex Soloviev, ha! beat that :P |
pfft...copy and pasting from facebook doesnt count ;) |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
i hate ppl bad mouthing the TTC when they know nothing about how it works or wat it takes to run a system like that.
pfft...copy and pasting from facebook doesnt count ;) |
:eek: I typed it :( |
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| MikeyN |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
funny that i met pavel as i walked out lol.
ps...ur one of the very few ppl who spelled my name right. :) |
yeah i run into Pavel here and there around downtown too...funny thing is he pretty much lived a block away from me all this time, and i never knew til i drove him home after LoL, oreo the cookie as well.
i could probably spell alex soloviev without ever having to look at it, im just really good for last names |
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| Frenchie |
wow poor man!
Yorkmills is my station, no wonder it took forever to get where I was going. |
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