Commuter chaos after huge stretch of TTC subway shuts down unexpectedly

A lengthy stretch of the TTC's Line 2 Bloor-Danforth is out of commission Tuesday morning, creating commuter chaos for those relying on the western end of the city's second-busiest transit route.

A whopping 6.75 kilometres of Line 2 was abruptly closed early Tuesday morning, and based on previous outages of this nature, commuters could be waiting quite a while for service to resume.

Just after 4:40 a.m. on Tuesday, the TTC announced that there would be no service on Line 2 between Jane and Kipling stations "while we fix a mechanical problem," adding that shuttle buses had been deployed.

The transit agency provided an update just after 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday, explaining that the outage had been extended to Keele, and attributing the disruption to "a hydraulic oil spill."