August 6, 2014
The Taste of the Danforth event will involve a road closure this weekend. Danforth Avenue will be closed in both directions from Friday, August 8 at 11 a.m. to Monday, August 11 at 1 a.m.
Residents and visitors are encouraged to come out and enjoy this major event. Festivals and other special events are important to the city, injecting hundreds of millions of dollars annually into Toronto’s economy, and they are enjoyed each year by local residents.
In addition to road closures related to special events, a significant amount of road work is taking place in the city. People are encouraged to take public transit as a greener, faster and more affordable way of getting to their destinations.
Those who need to drive in the general vicinity of special events should allow extra time to get to and from their destination. A more complete list of road work is available at
http://www.toronto.ca/torontostreets/.
In addition, the City's T.O. INview map at
http://www.toronto.ca/inview shows planned capital construction work taking place across the city.
Toronto is Canada's largest city, the fourth largest in North America, and home to a diverse population of about 2.8 million people. It is a global centre for business, finance, arts and culture and is consistently ranked one of the world's most livable cities. Toronto is proud to be the Host City for the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games. For information on non-emergency City services and programs, Toronto residents, businesses and visitors can visit
http://www.toronto.ca, call 311, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or follow us @TorontoComms.
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