404 Closure? near Finch Ave.

[express.items]

Was on the 39 Finch Ave Westbound bus heading to Seneca just about 20minutes ago. It slowed to a crawl by the 404, I thought it was just congested traffic for some reason. As we approached the 404 South on-ramp there was a police cruiser blocking it and an officer directing vehicles that were exiting through this on-ramp, vehicles were also exiting by the normal exit. As the bus progressed further west, the same was happening on the 404 North on-ramp. Any idea what happened? There are no MTO cameras this far North. They only go to 404/401 and there seems to be congested traffic there. There were also pylons on the 404 by the exit ramp.

[Jkim]

interesting...frig guess i have to leave my house a bit early to reach seneca

[chickenbones]

Southbound is closed, Northbound has since been opened.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_8529.aspx

[TheRide]

North and Southbound lanes are open now.

Congrats on your 1000th post cb.

[cookiejunkie]

Oh GOD! I had no idea what was going on until I got on @ hwy 7 and ONCE i got on i was trapped. I had to make a U-turn and go up the wrong way on the Steeles ramp to get out of that traffic. It was horrible!!!!!

[crsm0085]

Oh GOD! I had no idea what was going on until I got on @ hwy 7 and ONCE i got on i was trapped. I had to make a U-turn and go up the wrong way on the Steeles ramp to get out of that traffic. It was horrible!!!!!

Same here, got on the 404 south off of the ramp from Hwy 7 around noon, and it took an hour and a half just to get to Steeles. And this on the heels of last Thursday's disasterous drive! And how about all those geniuses who decided that they were in so much more of a rush than the rest of us, and sped along the shoulder (until inevitably having to try to force their way back in to traffic where the shoulders got too narrow). Brutal week for driving, in this part of the GTA anyway!

[GangStarr]

680 news people, every 10 minutes.

[Shaner]

680 news people, every 10 minutes.

Exactly, I'm not from Toronto and even I know that.

[GangStarr]

in case your on the TTC

text traffic to 680680

costs like 50 cents but oh so handy. I hate coming up to the express / collector split and it being like x:59

2 minutes can mean an extra hour in traffic.

Personal I refuse to enter highways unless I hear the traffic report. Don't care what time of day or night, everyone thinks that at 4 am theres going to be no traffic. Haha, one crazy trucker from kebek can change all that.

U-turn and go up the wrong way on the Steeles ramp to get out of that traffic. It was horrible!!!!!

I think you shouldn't have a drivers license. You saved what, an hour tops? Wait til you get in a head on accident.

[crsm0085]

680 news people, every 10 minutes.
Exactly, I'm not from Toronto and even I know that.

No kidding guys.. However, I work within a 5 minute drive of the 404, and didn't actually hear the traffic report until I was already on the highway. I did, however, hear it repeated again and again and again over the course of an hour and a half as I crawled my way towards the first offramp. Blah.



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U-turn and go up the wrong way on the Steeles ramp to get out of that traffic. It was horrible!!!!!

I think you shouldn't have a drivers license. You saved what, an hour tops? Wait til you get in a head on accident.

I thought I had heard on one of the traffic reports that police were actually directing traffic stuck between Steeles and the closure at Finch back up the wrong way on the Steeles ramp as cookiejunkie described, but I won't swear to it.. All I know is that I got off on the proper ramp, but could see the traffic coming up on the other side, into oncoming eastbound Steeles traffic, with no police direction that I could see. Ridiculously dangerous.

[express.items]

I thought I had heard on one of the traffic reports that police were actually directing traffic stuck between Steeles and the closure at Finch back up the wrong way on the Steeles ramp as cookiejunkie described, but I won't swear to it.. All I know is that I got off on the proper ramp, but could see the traffic coming up on the other side, into oncoming eastbound Steeles traffic, with no police direction that I could see. Ridiculously dangerous.

As I said, they were doing that at Finch. People were coming OFF the onramps, being directed by police of course. I don't know about Steeles.