Tensions around Montreal’s ongoing public transit strike boiled over Friday morning, when a frustrated commuter reportedly shattered a glass door at Champ-de-Mars metro station.

The incident happened around 10:15 a.m., just after scheduled metro service ended for the morning due to the STM rotating maintenance workers’ strike.

CityNews arrived on scene minutes later and saw the broken glass, but did not witness the event directly.

“There was someone who came just after the metro closed,” a witness told CityNews. “A few minutes later, he arrived, saw the doors were locked, and he got angry. He kicked it — not hard, like with his heel — and he broke it. Then he left. That’s it. Just a citizen who was upset. Maybe he wasn’t informed that the metro closes at 10.”

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