{"id":36875,"date":"2026-05-08T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/36875\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:53:37","slug":"it-will-be-a-total-nightmare-getting-around-toronto-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/36875\/","title":{"rendered":"It will be a total nightmare getting around Toronto this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pack your patience if you’re planning on going out this weekend, as a slew of subway, highway, and road closures threaten to turn travel across Toronto into a total nightmare.<\/p>\n

Whether you have plans to catch a baseball game at Rogers Centre, a soccer game at BMO Field, a concert at Scotiabank Arena, or a\u00a0spring market\u00a0downtown, travel times may take much longer than normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Major closures will shut down portions of the TTC’s Line 2, the Don Valley Parkway, while several events and even a marathon will put\u00a0strain on all forms of transportation.<\/p>\n

From Friday, May 8, at 11 p.m. until Monday, May 11, at 5 a.m., the\u00a0Don Valley Parkway (DVP) will be closed<\/a>\u00a0from Highway 401 to the Jarvis Street ramp on the Gardiner Expressway.\u00a0This upcoming closure is required for general maintenance and construction work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A hefty portion of Line 2 Bloor-Danforth will be shut down<\/a> this weekend as well. Subway service between Kipling to Jane stations will be replaced by shuttle buses starting at 11 p.m. on Friday, May 8 to Saturday, May 9, due to planned signal work.<\/p>\n

The Sporting Life 10K<\/a> is also taking place this weekend and will affect traffic across a wide stretch of town, as six major roads will be closed to accommodate\u00a0the marathon on Sunday, May 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bayview Avenue from Front Street to Mill St. and Mill St. from Tannery Rd. to Bayview Ave. will be shut down one day earlier, beginning Saturday, May 9 at 7 a.m. until Sunday, May 10 at 5 p.m. Meanwhile, portions of Yonge St., Front. St., Cherry St. and Eastern Ave. will be closed the day of the marathon to accommodate the 24,000 participants in the annual run.<\/p>\n

Expect heavy crowds and congestion at Union and Exhibition GO stations starting Friday, May 8, due to Blue Jays and TFC games. Commuters should plan extra travel time during busy game-time hours throughout the weekend, particularly around Rogers Centre and BMO Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pack your patience if you’re planning on going out this weekend, as a slew of subway, highway, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16029,48,252,10277],"class_list":["post-36875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-this","tag-toronto","tag-traffic","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}