Service resumes on Montreal Metro's Blue line after work-related delay
Service resumed late Sunday to six stations on the Montreal Metro's Blue line.
The section between the Snowdon and Acadie stations was scheduled to close Sunday from 5:30 a.m. until 7 p.m.
However, late Sunday the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) announced it would be extending the closure due to "work-related constraints."
The concrete was taking longer to dry than expected, and a second evaluation was to be carried out on Sunday night to determine when the six affected stations could reopen, according to Isabelle Tremblay, communications officer at the STM.
The stations opened shortly after 9 p.m.
The STM said a shuttle service would continue to operate for two hours after the Blue line resumed operations Sunday evening.
Orange line trains continued to stop at Snowdon station during the closure that affected Côte-des-Neiges, Université-de-Montréal, Édouard-Montpetit, Outremont and Acadie stations.
The closures were because of work at Édouard-Montpetit station to install two elevators to make the station wheelchair accessible.
The work impacted multiple stations because it affected the location of the track switches required to turn trains around, according to the STM.
The Blue line was still running between Parc and Saint-Michel stations during the weekend.
