The Toronto Transit Commission is vowing to look at new safety measures after an SUV drove 600 metres into a Toronto streetcar tunnel over the weekend.
TTC spokesman Brad Ross said the incident happened Sunday morning around 4:30 a.m. when the car with Alberta plates was found stuck on a streetcar track in the Queens Quay tunnel.
“At some point, you’d think the driver would have said, ‘Hmm, this ain’t right,'” quipped Ross on Twitter.
The TTC said the driver fled the scene and police are now investigating.
Ross said the tunnel, which is located near the foot of Bay Street, occasionally gets the errant wrong-way vehicles.
“It’s happened, maybe twice, in the last year… so not very often,” Ross told Global News.
“There are lots of signs and flashing lights at the tunnel entrance, but we’re looking at further measures to make it even clearer that autos can’t go down there.”
Ross said the stuck vehicle forced delays on the 510 and 509 streetcar route all morning and into the afternoon.
Crews were finally able to remove the obstruction by 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.
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