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“The subway is of huge importance,” says Christopher Wong, director of transportation and master planning at York, looking at the hole. “A large number of the York community rely on transit, and those numbers are growing annually.”

The TTC has already postponed the subway’s opening by a year, to the fall of 2016. Now the hole handover is delayed.

“EllisDon have taken some time with respect to the site,” says Joanna Kervin, senior project director for the TTC. “There are a lot of questions asked, a lot of drawings reviewed, before it gets handed over. That’s been going on for a number of months now. There has been some delay with the handover. Certainly we would expect that EllisDon would rework their schedule to complete in the time that was in the original contract.”

EllisDon has filled a large expanse of a York parking lot east of the hole with construction trailers, but I see no workers. A book that records visits notes a steady stream of TTC personnel. EllisDon staff here steer questions to the TTC.

Councillor Anthony Perruzza, whose ward houses four of the future TTC stations, was at York on Monday, viewing progress on a track and field stadium for the Pan Am Games. He asked about the subway, and York officials took him up Kaneff Tower.

“I took a couple of pictures of the big swimming pool there,” he said. He is now “firing off a letter to the TTC” to ask about the delay.

“Why are there no workers on the site?” he asks. “Why is it full of water? What are the potential costs of delays?