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Mount Dennis Station flooded earlier this week, just days before trains on the long-awaited Eglinton Crosstown light-rail transit line are scheduled to finally roll in.
The flooding was the result of a sprinkler pipe that burst due to extreme temperatures, according to Metrolinx spokesperson Lyndsay Miller. In an email, she said the pipe has since been fixed and the station has been cleaned.
A video of the flooding, posted to Reddit Wednesday, shows water puddling along the station’s empty subway platform, where a mop, push broom, shovel and wet sign have been left abandoned. At one point, the video shows water gushing from the ceiling near a platform wall, with steam rising from where it falls.
Throughout the video, water can be heard streaming across the floor.
“Can’t wait for Line 5 to open this weekend…” one Reddit user commented.
Mount Dennis Station is set to become the western terminus of the new Line 5, or Eglinton Crosstown, which will begin a phased opening Sunday. The date was confirmed this week after years of delays.
Cold temperatures haven’t caused similar pipe problems at any of the other stations along the line, Miller said.
The line, which is already six years behind schedule due to technical problems and more than $1 billion over budget, will be adjusted as it’s phased in to expand service and capacity, improve speed and respond to rider feedback, TTC CEO Mandeep Lali said this week.
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The new Eglinton line recently had “some minor emergency brake occurrences” during testing, Metrolinx said late last week, but Lali said Tuesday there are no “unaddressed safety-critical items” on Line 5 heading into its opening.
The opening will come nearly two months after the opening of the Finch West LRT, which logged 350 delays in its first month of service. Many of the delays were due to issues with switching technology, particularly in winter weather. Switches are used to move trains onto different tracks.
The Eglinton line uses different technology to heat the switches than Finch West, Lali said this week.