TTC stopped all service for 96 seconds on Monday for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral
Posted September 14, 2022 2:32 pm.
Last Updated September 19, 2022 1:27 pm.
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) stopped all bus, streetcar, subway and Wheel-Trans services for 96 seconds on Monday afternoon in recognition of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
The “stop-and-stay” order went into effect at around 1 p.m. and required all subway trains to stay at subway platforms for a minute and 36 seconds.
Buses and streetcars stopped at each vehicle’s closest regular-service stop just before 1 p.m. and Wheel-Trans vehicles were “brought to a stop at a safe location” around the same time, the TTC said.
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Meanwhile, all in-station and social media posts were paused.
Ninety-six marks the age of the Queen when she died.
Officials said the move was part of a broader City of Toronto plan to pay tribute to the queen.
The City of Toronto’s ferries also paused at 1 p.m. for 96 seconds and bells in the tower of Old City Hall tolled 96 times.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Monday has been designated as a national day of mourning in Canada and a holiday for Government of Canada employees. Some provinces opted to honour the holiday, but Ontario and Quebec did not.
The TTC has enacted “stop-and-stay” orders for other events in the past, such as when the remains of 215 Indigenous children were discovered in 2021 at the site of a residential school in Kamloops, B.C., during annual Remembrance Day services and in 2007 when a TTC worker died on the job.
