A driver crashed their vehicle into a gas line near Blair station in Ottawa on Wednesday morning, causing a service disruption on the Confederation Line. OC Transpo has closed train service east of St-Laurent station and is using buses as a replacement. The incident also caused temporary disruptions on the Trillium Line.
Ottawa 's fire department says a driver left Highway 174 near the westbound Blair Road on-ramp and crashed into a gas line . OC Transpo has closed the Confederation Line in the area.Posted: Jan 29, 2025 9:09 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
A driver crashed their car into a gas line near Blair station Wednesday morning, cutting off Confederation Line service there. Ottawa's fire department says a driver left Highway 174 near the westbound Blair Road on-ramp and crashed into a gas line Wednesday morning., Ottawa Fire Services said they arrived on the scene of the single-vehicle crash just before 7 a.m. and there are no reported injuries.
OC Transpo is not running trains east of St-Laurent station, bringing in R1 buses instead between Blair and St-Laurent. It has its usual shuttle buses between Cyrville station and St-Laurent.Emergency crews, including Enbridge, respond to the crash. on the recently reopened Trillium Line, closing its southbound platform. That station takes riders both to Limebank station at the end of Line 2 and down Line 4 to Uplands and Airport stations.
OC Transpo first posted about this problem around 8 a.m. and announced regular service had returned before 8:30 a.m. CBC has reached out to OC Transpo for more information. It is not clear how the Trillium Line problemand another one reported last week.
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