By: Arshy Mann Staff Reporter, Published on Tue Jul 09 2013
The Toronto Star
Toronto is still recovering from an unprecedented rainstorm that shattered records and paralyzed the city.
Subway service has resumed fully on the Sheppard and the Yonge-University-Spadina lines and on much of the Bloor-Danforth line.
However, there will be no service between Kipling and Jane stations, with commuters having to rely on a fleet of shuttle buses.
The 504 King St. streetcar will not be diverting between Queen St. W and Shaw St. because of flooding on Atlantic Ave.
With large portions of track under water, service on GO trains will be severely impacted all morning.
On the Lakeshore West line, all trains will run as scheduled as far as Port Credit. GO buses will then take commuters to Long Branch where they can transfer to other eastbound trains that will depart at 20 minute intervals.
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Severe thunderstorms caused flooding and power outages around the GTA. zoom
The 7:23 a.m. Pickering train on the Lakeshore East line is cancelled, as are the 7:13 and 7:53 trains on the Milton line.
On the Richmond Hill line, Oriole and Old Cummer GO stations will be closed, but passengers will be able to use their GO fares on the TTC at Leslie, Finch, Sheppard and York Mills stations.
Trains leaving from Richmond Hill and Langstaff will be rerouted towards Union station with delays of around 30-45 minutes.
The 6:25 Richmond Hill train is cancelled and the 9:20 train will be replaced by buses.
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The Stouffville line will run from Lincolnville as scheduled but will be making additional stops at Scarborough and Danforth GO stations to pick up passengers from the Lakeshore East line.
The Kitchener line will be operating at reduced speeds, with delays of approximately 10 minutes.
The Barrie line will operate from Allandale as scheduled.
Most of the major expressways in and out of the city have reopened, but a number of roads remain closed, including:
Don Roadway at Lake Shore Blvd. E.
Rosedale Valley Rd. from Bayview Ave. to Park Rd.
Disco Rd. under the Hwy. 427
Bayview Ave. between Pottery Rd. and King St.
Royal York Rd. the Dundas Bridge
Flights out of Billy Bishop Airport have resumed with a handful of delays.
Pearson Airport’s website is down due to high traffic, but planes are departing, but with delays. Flyers are asked to call their carrier to confirm whether their flights will be on time.
This is unreal. It´s an example we can´t fight mother nature even if we wanted to. Even though it´s been a few moths since the floods occurred in Toronto I still cannot stop shaking when I´m looking at the pictures of flooded streets of Toronto. It was a horrible experience for me.