Tory Tasks Road Closures Committee to Make a Schedule

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Toronto Mayor John Tory has announced that the city’s Road Closures Coordination Committee has begun streamlining a schedule intended to better the flow of traffic downtown during the busy summer months. According to the mayor, the new committee had its second meeting on Friday, when it was tasked to create a schedule taking events like Blue Jay games and marathons into consideration when deciding when to slot in TTC and road closures.

After Friday’s meeting, Tory stated that “we are actually sitting at the same table, making sure everybody is discussing these things at the same time.” He said that the city staff is contact with event organizers for negotiating to move either the events or the maintenance projects to different weekends in order to accommodate the new schedule. Moreover, the mayor alleged to have had requested the crews to speed up the annual maintenance work so that the Gardiner and Don Valley Parkway don’t need to be closed for an entire weekend.

Mayor Tory had promised to form coordination committees during his election campaign as he labeled former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his administration as inconsiderate for conducting maintenance works at wrong timings. The mayor said that the coordination committee are aimed to avoid those types of situations in the future, adding that “I think the exercise is working successfully. It is not going to achieve perfection but it will achieve a schedule agreed upon far enough in advance.”

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