8 TTC subway stations will shut down for the entire weekend

Subway service will shut down this weekend along an eight-station stretch of the TTC’s Line 1 Yonge-University.

The TTC warns transit users that the portion of Line 1 between St Clair and Finch stations will shut down for the duration of Saturday, October 21 and Sunday, October 22, to accommodate track work.

This Saturday and Sunday, there will be no subway service on Line 1 between St Clair and Finch stations. Lawrence Station will be closed and all regular routes into Lawrence Station will board on the street. Shuttle buses will operate. Subway service will resume Monday at 6 a.m. pic.twitter.com/UffBcrS4xg

— TTC Customer Service (@TTChelps) October 19, 2023

Trains will turn back at St. Clair, while the northernmost 10 kilometres of Line 1 extending to the terminus at Finch will be replaced with a shuttle bus service throughout the closure, which will stop at eight of the stations.

Many transit users are likely to miss the memo, and the TTC will have staff on hand to direct customers to shuttle bus boarding and offloading points.

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While these eight stations will not be served by trains, six of the stations — all but North York Centre and Lawrence stations — will remain open for customers to purchase and load Presto cards and connect to surface routes.

During the closure, Sheppard-Yonge Station’s automatic entrances at Poyntz Avenue and Anndale Drive, as well as York Mills Station’s Old York Mills Road entrance/exit, will be inaccessible.

Subway disruptions will stretch into next week thanks to a five-day early closure elsewhere on Line 1.

The TTC has announced early weeknight closures on the stretch of Line 1 from St George to St Andrew. From Monday, October 23 through Friday, October 27, subway service on this stretch will halt at 11 pm to accommodate additional track work.

Shuttle buses will operate, and stations will remain open (except for Museum, Queens Park and St Patrick stations) for Presto purchases and connections to surface routes.