He’s back. TTC CEO Andy Byford has taken to YouTube again with the latest explainer video dedicated to this month’s 12-day closure of Pape Station to complete a chunk of the work on the overdue modernization project.

The closure, now scheduled for Aug. 19 to 30, was delayed by a labour dispute involving tile workers.

But the TTC is promising that the 12-day shutdown, which means diverting three busy bus routes and having trains skip stopping at Pape, will be worth the pain.

When Pape reopens, the tiling, ceiling work and new stairs will be complete and most of the hoarding will have been removed, to reveal a new enclosed bus waiting area.

Although there will still be remaining work on the complex’s second exit, elevator, bike racks and landscaping, Byford is promising it will all be finished by the end of the year as per the commitment in the TTC’s customer charter. The station will also be fully accessible.

The closure will affect three bus routes:

The 25 Don Mills bus will use Donlands Ave. and Don Mills Station.

The 81 Thorncliffe Park bus will travel on Pape Ave. and use the Donlands Station via Danforth Ave.

The 72 Pape bus will also use Danforth Ave. and stop at Chester and Broadview stations. It will then travel north to Mortimer and south on Pape.

“I want this to go really smoothly, so we’ll have teams of highly customer-focused personnel but also signage to make it as simple as possible,” Byford says in the video.

More information is available on the TTC website or at 416-393-4636.

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The prolonged Pape closure was the preferred option of regular users, who were surveyed earlier this year on whether they preferred one longer closure or a series of shorter station shutdowns.

The modernization of Pape, initiated in 2009, has suffered a series of delays due to utility and water main issues, according to the TTC.

The Danforth-area stations are relatively close together. Donlands is only 400 metres away and Chester is about 464 metres. About 25,000 people a day use Pape, according to the most recent statistics, from 2011.