Avoid The DVP At All Costs This Weekend Because It’s Getting Totally Shut Down For Repairs
Drivers, plan your trips accordingly.
If you're planning on taking a leisurely cruise around Toronto, you might want to rethink your route, because the Don Valley Parkway is going to be shut down for annual maintenance this weekend.
The City announced that the DVP will be closed on Friday, August 6, at 11 p.m. for its yearly maintenance and improvements. This will affect the entire highway, which runs from Highway 401 to the Gardiner Expressway. It will reopen again just in time for your morning commute to work on Monday, August 9, at 5 a.m.
Some of the City's repairs will include fixing potholes, repairing and constructing roadside ditches, street sweeping, cleaning up graffiti and litter, and more.
In order to help out with travel and control congestion on the roads, the City's staff will monitor nearby routes and re-time almost 300 traffic signals around the DVP closure, as well as around the Rogers Centre and BMO Field.
According to the City, about 135,000 cars and other vehicles travel on the DVP each and every day.
If you're seriously missing driving down the DVP — like Kyle Lowry likely will be when he leaves Toronto — you can totally rage out to this appropriately named PUP song.