Traffic along Prince Philip Drive and through the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) Tuesday afternoon was slowed down considerably as authorities worked to clean up a major cooking oil spill.
The spill — which stretched from the Wicklow Street intersection, along the Parkway down onto Morrissey Road and Arctic Avenue on the MUN campus — was caused by a truck carrying cooking oil which sprang a leak.
Over the course of the afternoon fire department crews, City of St. John's crews and later workers with Pardy’s Waste Management Ltd. could be seen spreading absorbent material in an effort to clean up the spill.
Metrobus service in the area was also affected.
