People planning to head out and enjoy the Halloweekend festivities in Toronto this weekend may want to take note of a major TTC subway closure on tap for Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27, 2024.

The TTC has announced that it will halt subway service on Line 2 between Victoria Park and Kennedy stations for this entire weekend, the latest in a series of rolling closures this year that the transit agency chalks up to "planned track work."

The portion of Line 2 Bloor-Danforth spans almost five kilometres, covering Victoria Park, Warden, and Kennedy stations at the eastern extent of the line.

Throughout the closure, commuters will be herded onto shuttle buses, while all three affected subway stations will remain open for customers to purchase/reload Presto fares and tickets, and connect with TTC surface routes.

Regular service is expected to resume on Monday, October 28, by 6 a.m.

If the affected part of the subway network sounds familiar to you, that just might be because the planned closure is the second such full-weekend outage for this exact stretch in October alone, following an identical shutdown on October 12 and 13.

Making matters worse, the upcoming outage will be followed by yet another full-weekend closure on this section of Line 2 on November 2 and 3, marking the third whole weekend that locals in this part of the city will be without subway service in a one-month span.

And if that wasn't enough of a burden on transit users in this pocket of Toronto, these weekend closures are being joined by nightly weekday early closings along this portion of track from October 21-25 and again on October 28-31, with service halting at 11 p.m.

All of these closures and service adjustments mark just the latest in a seemingly neverending string of inconveniences that are pushing the patience of Scarborough transit users to the limit.

The constant closures on this stretch follow the untimely closure of the Line 3 Scarborough RT last year, and the years of construction locals will have to endure before the Scarborough Subway Extension project wraps construction between 2029 and 2030.