A vehicle took a wrong turn and managed to enter a Toronto streetcar tunnel causing service delays Thursday morning.
The discovery was made just before the morning rush hour when a SUV was found stuck on a streetcar track in the Queens Quay tunnel at Union Station.
“This will take some time to clear. Far more than it took the driver to get to this point, unfortunately,” Toronto Transit Commission spokesman Brad Ross tweeted.
Transit officials were told the man was using his vehicle GPS when he mistakenly took the wrong turn.
Shuttle buses replaced the 509 Harbourfront and 510 Spadina streetcars operating on Front Street, Bay Street and Queens Quay for the nearly six hours.
Ross said the driver of the SUV left the scene to get help but later returned. He was fined $425 for illegal entry.
The vehicle was removed from the tracks around 10 a.m.
This isn’t the first time a vehicle has entered the tunnel.
Last year, another SUV drove 600 metres into the exact same area.
The tunnel, which is located near the foot of Bay Street, occasionally gets the errant wrong-way vehicle.
The TTC has erected signs of the potential hazard but some have chosen to disregard the warning.
VIDEO: Vehicle travels wrong way, gets stuck in TTC tunnel
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