Toronto got 22 centimetres of snow yesterday, so Line 6 is down today
It’s not yet clear when service will be restored, according to a TTC spokesperson
Yesterday’s snowstorm may have been record-breaking.
Monica Vaswani, the warning preparedness meteorologist at Environment Canada, told the CBC that the numbers are still being confirmed, but it looks like 22 centimetres were recorded at Pearson. The most snow previously recorded on January 15 fell in 1863, when Toronto got 15.2 centimetres.
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“Even though the snowfall warning has since ended, the impacts are still expected to be felt within the community. And what that means is it is not necessarily a green light to go ahead and resume normal activities. The roads are still likely going to take time to be cleared,” Vaswani told the CBC.
And that includes the Finch West LRT, which has been shut down numerous times due to poor weather and mechanical issues since opening last month. TTC spokesperson Susan Nguyen said that Line 6 is down while crews remove snow from the tracks, with no timeline for when riders can expect to resume travel. Yesterday, the line was out of service twice, the second time lasting over 14 hours.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
