The TTC will shut down subways on parts of the rapid transit network on most weekends this year, and riders will have endured full weekend closures a whopping 38 times by 2025.

On Monday, the TTC briefed the media on its capital repairs report, offering a glimpse into the extremes the transit agency plans to go to in hopes of restoring public confidence in a cash-strapped and increasingly unreliable subway network.

Interrupts include 22.5 (the 0.5 representing last one-day closure in January) weekends without subway on line 1, and another 16 interruptions on line 2.

This equates to up to 38 outages, although the TTC plans for 10 of those closures to overlap, meaning riders will only have to deal with 28 weekends without subways.

Line 1 closures include three to accommodate work on Rogers’ 5G network, one closure for station expansion, five for improvement projects and eight for good condition repair work.

On Line 2, there will be four closures for Rogers 5G work, six for expansion projects, one closure for work on an automated train control system, three improvement-related closures and eight closures that are in good condition.

In many cases, such as areas with higher-order transit options, the TTC is unlikely to run shuttles for disruptions, similar to the 2024 closures where The TTC chose not to provide shuttle bus replacements.

If this weekend’s closings weren’t enough of an inconvenience, the TTC is also planning a whopping 217 early closings this year. Adding up weekday and weekend closures, there will be disruptions on the TTC’s subway network for 293 of the 365 days this year, or over 80 percent of 2025.

Somehow, the 38 planned weekend closures are down from a previous vision that called for 72 weekend closures (obviously including overlap between Line 1 and Line 2 because of how many weeks there are in a year, duh!)

“Through aggressive internal coordination, we were able to reduce the total effects of the weekend to 28,” media attending the briefing were told.

The 2025 closure schedule is a significant increase over the 25 scheduled and one unscheduled weekend closures on Lines 1 and 2, and 167 early/nighttime closures in 2024.

A report by the city’s Chief Operations and Infrastructure Officer recommends that the TTC board approve the projection of 2025 subway closures and streetcar diversions at its upcoming Jan. 27 meeting.