Gardiner Expressway reduced to 2 lanes in each direction for 3 years [Video]

A 700-metre stretch of the Gardiner Expressway in downtown Toronto is now running on two lanes in each direction for the foreseeable future and some drivers are already expecting traffic to get worse.

“It’s going to be chaos,” Nellie Carol, who lives at the Harbourfront, told CTV News Toronto.

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One westbound lane from Dufferin Street and Strachan Avenue was closed on Sunday in addition to the one eastbound lane that was closed last week. The closures are part of a rehabilitation project for the 60-year-old highway, which is expected to last until mid-2027.

Even before Sunday’s closure, Carol said traffic in the area was bad due to the lane reduction in the eastbound lanes.

“When I was travelling westbound…I could see the traffic [eastbound] was backed up all the way from Yonge Street all the way back to the [Highway] 427. It was like a parking lot,” she said.

Mary Ann Torres says her commute …