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The Toronto Transit Commission says it has directed the contractor building a subway station at York University to pump out a giant pool of water that has collected at the dormant site.

Sameh Ghaly, the transit agency’s chief capital officer, told a commission meeting Wednesday that he called TTC staff Wednesday morning after reading about so-called Lake York in the National Post. Staff had already told EllisDon to get rid of the groundwater, to which Mr. Ghaly responded, “make sure they pump it right away.”

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The Spanish consortium that dug the hole for York’s subway station stopped working on the site in July so that EllisDon, which is building the croissant-shaped station, could take over. But the transition has taken longer than expected, and work has yet to resume.

Local city councillor Anthony Perruzza appeared at the TTC meeting Wednesday to voice concerns about the standstill project.