Toronto's College & Bay Intersection Reopens Early

0:00Toronto drivers got some welcome news this week. Mayor Olivia Chow announced that the busy intersection of college and bay streets is reopening tonight, weeks ahead of its mid-April target. It had been closed to cars and bikes since March 2nd for sewer upgrades and streetcar track work. Another key spot, Queen Street East that Bravy Avenue is also opening up tonight, three weeks early. That project kicked off in January and had squeezed traffic down to one lane each way between Braudview and Davies for Watermain and Track Repairs. Crews sped things along by bringing in extra workers. The mayor highlighted this as part of a positive shift and have the city handles construction. She pointed to the massive gardener expressway rehab wrapped up in just a year and a half instead of the planned three years. Overall, road closures are now averaging two and a half days shorter, cutting down frustration for commuters and transit riders. City leaders are prioritizing less disruption from these projects and early results

1:02show it's working. Toronto is heading in the right direction on this front. More phases lie ahead for the college street area though. Starting late July, sewer work on college from young to bay and track replacements on Carlton from church to young will run through September, keeping. One lane opened each way. The final stretch replaces TTC tracks on college until December 2026 with similar lane setups and some closures on young at college. That's the story for today. Toronto News Today Driven by AI