Westbound Gardiner Expressway lane closes for bridge repairs, will reopen May 2026

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· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 10:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

The westbound bound Gardiner Expressway was reduced from 4 lanes to 3 connected Wednesday successful a closure that volition proceed until May 2026. 

The closure, which is happening eastbound of Park Lawn Road to Grand Avenue, is happening truthful the metropolis tin proceed captious repair enactment connected 5 bridges, the metropolis has said. 

"We cognize that it's going to beryllium hard, but we request to get this enactment done," said Jennifer Graham Harkness, the city's main technologist and enforcement manager for engineering and operation services. 

"We are going to beryllium watching things and making definite we tin assistance support radical moving along." 

Also starting Wednesday, the eastbound Gardiner Expressway lanes volition beryllium narrowed from Grand Avenue to eastbound of Park Lawn Road, but determination volition beryllium nary lane shutdowns. This volition proceed until November 2026, the metropolis said. 

Harkness said the metropolis is allowing the contractor to enactment longer hours, including 24/7 arsenic necessary. It volition besides supply the contractor incentives to beforehand getting the enactment done "as rapidly arsenic we can," she said. 

During construction, the metropolis volition instrumentality congestion absorption measures, including postulation monitoring connected the Gardiner and real-time adjustments to postulation awesome timings, according to a quality merchandise past month.

"We afloat admit that this is going to origin disruption and we are going to beryllium continuing to show however the enactment is advancing," Harkness said. 

People who volition beryllium travelling adjacent roadworthy closures are advised to plan in advance, let for other clip and see taking alternate means of transport, the metropolis said connected Tuesday. 

The pursuing closures volition besides hap connected the Gardiner from 11 p.m. connected Wednesday until 5 a.m. connected Thursday. 

• The eastbound Gardiner Expressway off-ramp to Lake Shore Boulevard astatine Humber River volition beryllium afloat closed. 
• The transportation from the eastbound Gardiner Expressway collector lanes to eastbound explicit lanes betwixt Islington Avenue and Royal York Road volition beryllium closed. 
• The eastbound Gardiner Expressway explicit lanes volition beryllium reduced to 1 lane betwixt Grand Avenue and Humber River.