Passengers are bracing for more delays on the ride home after the bitterly cold weather was blamed for the longer-than-usual commute Monday morning on the TTC and GO Transit.Service was disrupted on the TTC subway lines because of the extreme cold in the GTA. Buses were added to the 501 Queen streetcar service in the morning, while the 506 Carlton was entirely replaced by buses. “We don’t anticipate there being the same issues this afternoon but we will monitor,” Stuart Green, the TTC media relations and issues management specialist, said in an email.“We’re deploying additional track and signal crews throughout the day and into tomorrow morning to check and de-ice any switches still experiencing issues. These extra steps we’re taking should mitigate only those weather-related issues we experienced this morning.”Read more: OPP respond to more than 350 snow-related crashes on GTA roadsExtreme cold warning, special weather statement hit Toronto over weekendEdmonton and Calgary lose their chill this weekend as mild winter weather returnsMost GO Trains going into Union Station in the morning ran 15-to-20 minutes late. “This morning overall, just from a system-wide perspective, we found there weren’t any extreme service disruptions for our trains and buses,” Metrolinx spokesperson Scott Money said. “There were a variety of weather-related issues that did cause service to be slower than normal.”According to Money, most of the delays on the GO trains were caused by icy snow infiltrating the doors and the entire mechanism, resulting in doors either unable to close or unable to open.Money added that for the afternoon rush hour, “we’ll have extra crews on hand again and throughout the day now they’re working to make sure all the switches are working properly, de-icing all the doors to minimize any delays for the afternoon.” Coming out of an icy spell this past weekend, Torontoni ...
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