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.
OC Transpo has closed the Confederation Line in the area.
In a social media post, 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.
Trains are running as normal between St-Laurent and Tunney’s Pasture stations.
OC Transpo said in a memo late Wednesday morning it’s working with maintenance crews, Enbridge and Ottawa firefighters to repair the gas line and safety bring trains back.
There was also a switch problem at South Keys station 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 problem could affect its staged reopening to seven days a week, up from the current Sunday closures.
There was a switch problem on the Confederation Line Monday and another one reported last week.
The train problems come on a snowy morning that’s seen OC Transpo ask riders to leave extra time for their trips and also school bus cancellations in the capital.