Don’t forget, the Gardiner Expressway will be closed this weekend
Crews need to perform infrastructure maintenance ahead of the World Cup
A set of closures will hit Toronto transportation routes this weekend, making it more challenging than usual to get around the city.
Let’s start with the Gardiner Expressway, which will close in both directions between Spadina and the Humber River. This is so crews can perform infrastructure maintenance such as repairs to cracks and potholes, lighting inspection and maintenance and replacement of guard rails, ahead of this summer’s FIFA World Cup at BMO Field. An announcement issued by the city points out that a portion of Gardiner paving work had to be delayed until now due to the World Series.
The highway will reopen at 5 a.m. on Monday, after closing tonight (Friday) at 11 p.m.
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We’ll give you a heads-up now that during the weekend of May 8, the Don Valley Parkway will undergo a similar closure, from Highway 401 to the Jarvis ramp.
City officials said in the announcement that “Drivers should plan their travel in advance and consider alternate routes, leave extra time for their journey and take public transit, if possible.”
And on that note, Line 2 Bloor-Danforth is set to be closed for part of this weekend, beginning Saturday, between Kipling and Jane stations, due to planned signal work. Service will resume on Sunday at 8 a.m.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
