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CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Single-vehicle rollover temporarily closes southbound DVP lanes at York Mills
A Toronto Police Service logo patch is shown in Toronto, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby Toronto police are investigating the scene of a vehicle rollover that temporarily shut down a stretch of the DVP late Friday night. In a post to social media, officials say they were called to the DVP at York Mills road just before 11 p.m. The male driver was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to investigators. The southbound DVP was closed at York Mills as crews began their investigation. However as of 1 a.m., police say all lanes have since reopened. There is no word on what caused the rollover.
CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Single-vehicle rollover temporarily closes southbound DVP lanes at York Mills
A Toronto Police Service logo patch is shown in Toronto, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby Toronto police are investigating the scene of a vehicle rollover that temporarily shut down a stretch of the DVP late Friday night. In a post to social media, officials say they were called to the DVP at York Mills road just before 11 p.m. The male driver was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to investigators. The southbound DVP was closed at York Mills as crews began their investigation. However as of 1 a.m., police say all lanes have since reopened. There is no word on what caused the rollover.
CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Single-vehicle rollover closes southbound DVP lanes at York Mills
A Toronto Police Service logo patch is shown in Toronto, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby Toronto police are investigating the scene of a crash after a vehicle reportedly rolled over shutting down a stretch of the DVP Friday night. In a post to social media, officials say they were called to the DVP at York Mills road just before 11 p.m. The male driver was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to investigators. The southbound DVP remains closed at York Mills as crews continue to investigate. All traffic is being diverted off at York Mills Road and drivers are advised to expect delays in the area. This is a developing news story, more details to come...
CBC
13-04-2025
- Automotive
- CBC
Key roadblock in Ontario's takeover of DVP and Gardiner Expressway could be cleared by end of year
The final roadblock to Ontario's takeover of the Gardiner Expressway Parkway could be cleared this year as the province and city finalize a deal Toronto's mayor says will free up the city's finances to better maintain everything from its transit system to its parks. A due diligence review by the province ahead of the upload, including an assessment of the highways, a financial and legal review, and other technical work is the last remaining hurdle for the province's takeover of the two highways. A spokesperson for Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria says the province is hopeful the study will be completed later this year. "The results of the (review) will help inform future decisions about all aspects of the upload, including timeframes," Dakota Brasier said in a statement. "The Ministry will need to assess the results once received." The highways will become the property of provincial taxpayers under the deal reached between Premier Doug Ford and Mayor Olivia Chow almost a year and a half ago. Since then, teams of civil servants have been at work on the complicated arrangement of handing over the 33 kilometres of joined road in and out of Toronto's core. WATCH | More construction is coming to the Gardiner Expressway: More construction is coming to the Gardiner Expressway. Here's what you need to know 12 days ago Duration 2:37 Crews will soon begin repair work on five bridges as part of Toronto's multi-year plan to rehabilitate the Gardiner Expressway. CBC's Britnei Bilhete has more details — and reaction from drivers. Chow said this week she is optimistic the formal work will wrap in 2025, paving the way for the full upload a short time later. "The conversation between the province and the city on the Gardiner upload is going very well," she said. "That upload really assists the City of Toronto." Gardiner and DVP an '800-pound' gorilla, Ford says In November 2023, when the agreement was announced, Ford called the highways an "800-pound gorilla on your back", recalling their impact on city finances from his time as a Toronto councillor. "Let's make it very clear: it doesn't matter what the due diligence comes back (with), we're taking care of the DVP and the Gardiner," he said. Toronto has operated under that assumption ever since, re-allocating $1.9 billion in capital spending to address urgent repair needs elsewhere. During the city's recent budget debate, $500 million was set aside for TTC repairs and maintenance. Parks, Forestry and Recreation will receive $400 million and Transportation Services will receive $350 million. Chow said the city has been struggling for decades to keep pace with its aging infrastructure. In 2017, the city started a strategic rehabilitation of the Gardiner, estimated to cost $1.7 billion. Toronto taxpayers have already spent $664 million on several parts of the refurbishment plan, which is yet to be completed. Last year, Ontario provided up to $73 million to help accelerate part of the refurbishment. The vice-chair of the city's infrastructure committee, Deputy Mayor Mike Colle, called the original download of the highways by the Harris government in the 1990s a bad decision that has hurt the city for decades. "It's been like slow poison every year because these costs have really taken away our ability to take care of our basic sewers and our water system, our hydro system," he said. Chow described work to address the capital budget each year as a hamster running on a wheel, largely because of the expense of the Gardiner. "It costs so much money and you just don't have enough. So while you're busy trying to fix the Gardiner, everything else is falling apart," she said. Toronto's general manager of transportation services, Barbara Gray, said this week that the work to hand over the highways to the province is still underway, but giving up highways like the Gardiner and DVP does come with complications. "I think anytime you have big infrastructure like that that is so well used, the maintenance and operational costs are always considerable at the same time, there's always some value in having some control over that. And so that's why it's so important that we have these conversations and iron out all of those pieces," she said. Coun. Anthony Perruzza said he was the lone vote on city council against the upload and worries about losing control of the highways. "The province is at the table now as the owners, so basically with any permit or any permission, you now have to go to them and say, 'Hey, listen, we want to do this,'" he said. "I don't think that that was a winning deal for the City of Toronto going forward. Absolutely not." Few revenue options if tolling is off the table: experts Matti Siemiatycki, a professor of geography and planning at the University of Toronto, said at this moment it's hard to imagine the city regretting the upload, but the province could have "buyer's remorse" because of the cost to maintain the elevated portion of the Gardiner. Highways can be an asset when cities can toll them, but bids to do that have been spiked by the province, he said. "If someone can figure out how to make money off of the Gardiner and the DVP without charging tolls, that will be a real feat, because that's been what's at play," he said. "There is a way that you could generate revenue. It is through tolls." Murtaza Haider, the director of Toronto Metropolitan University's Urban Analytics Institute, said the upload makes sense for a variety of reasons but it will take time to get it done correctly. The province simply has the highway maintenance experience and much greater borrowing capacity to finance the expensive work, he said. "I think the province carries more muscle to get a better deal out of contractors and a better deal out of scheduling and getting things done faster than the city," he said. The highways should have always been seen as arteries of provincial importance, he added. His hope is that the transition will be a seamless one that doesn't inconvenience drivers. "It shouldn't result in a drastic change," he said.
Fox News
10-04-2025
- Automotive
- Fox News
With no positions to gain, why was Kyle Larson on track so late at Darlington?
Trailing the leader by 168 laps, Kyle Larson was involved in an accident that changed the outcome of the Cup race Sunday at Darlington. A driver on the track that far behind with a repaired car? That hadn't been seen since 2017. And that's because the damaged vehicle policy (DVP) went into effect and teams only had a handful of minutes to repair their wrecked race cars. After wrecking on Lap 4, Larson's team spent nearly two hours in the garage making repairs. By the time he got back on track, Larson could not gain enough positions to earn additional points (36th, 37th and 38th can all earn one point, and the best he could do was finish 37th). He could have earned the point for the fastest lap, but with a damaged car, that wasn't likely. So, what exactly was Larson doing out there? "Just getting the nose fixed up as good as it was, giving us enough of a data point of how the car was driving that we could do some things to [learn]," Larson crew chief Cliff Daniels said after the race. "I'm not really sure you know [the first time the car requirements for] what NASCAR's take is on you come back in, you make minimum speed. "Yes, I know there's no points to gain [for spots], ... but the way our team is built, we certainly want to come here and take the checkered flag. And the other thing we were learning, too, was with the pit cycles. Just different air pressure settings and a couple of the things we were doing with the heights of the car." Larson tried to stay out of everyone's way. When he saw Tyler Reddick battling Ryan Blaney for the lead, he slowed down and went low to avoid any potential contact with Reddick. But Bubba Wallace had such a good run coming from behind Larson, that he accidentally got into the back of Larson and spun him. Without the caution, Blaney likely wins the race. With the caution, the race was primarily determined by the pit stops that followed, where Denny Hamlin came out first and Blaney came out fourth. So again, what was Larson doing out there? Well, he was allowed to be out there because of a rule change this year. NASCAR created the DVP for the previous version of the Cup car, and one of the reasons NASCAR officials limited time working on wrecked cars was to keep teams from having to do significant welding and patchwork. For years, crew members have had stories of suffering burns or having scalded fire suits from hot liquids, as well as cuts from jagged edges. The teams spent money bringing parts and pieces to the track for repairs. With the new rule, there was none of that and few complained. Yes, it would be nice to be able to finish the race, but the juice, most of the time — but not all the time — wasn't worth the squeeze. With the Next Gen car and the rules specifying which parts can be replaced, NASCAR figured that only on rare occasions would there be significant repairs. So this year, it allowed teams to work on their cars. NASCAR still has the option, if it feels the car is damaged beyond what it would consider racing condition, to retire the car from the event. But giving teams extra time to work on the cars also means getting the cars to a point where they can safely return. In these instances, there's less likelihood that any repaired part will fail or come off the car, creating another caution. Daniels figured that this would be a good exercise for his team — and for NASCAR — to understand what needs to be done to get a car back on track. The team was required to have certain tethers replaced and other items secured on the repaired front bumper. "The front clip wasn't hurt, the suspension wasn't hurt, the steering wasn't hurt, nothing in the radiator was hurt," Daniels said. "It was really just the aluminum bumper bar. And that's a lot of work just to get one of those changed. So we learned all we could and tried to maximize our day. "The benefit of the way we handled our day, including trying to get back out and complete all the laps at the end, was almost a good dress rehearsal. If that did happen in the fall ... we could probably cut our time in the garage by maybe up to 20 laps." Not only was Daniels aware of the possibility that they could earn a point for the fastest lap, he had his eyes looking ahead to the playoff race at Darlington in September. So, if there ended up being overtime, the team could have tried something with air pressures or tried an adjustment to see if it impacted their lap times for a two-lap shootout. As fate would have it, they were the reason for the overtime. "Unfortunately, that [wreck] could have changed the scope of the race, but we still had our own thing to do and tried to maximize what we could of our day," Daniels said. It's hard to argue with what Daniels was thinking. A team shouldn't be forced to not pursue points if it has a car capable of making speed on the track. A point could make the difference in the regular-season standings, which can also impact the number of playoff points a team earns during the season. And going through the process always helps for the next time. If there wasn't a point available for the fastest lap, it could be argued that, once a car realistically can't advance its position (technically, with unlimited overtimes, there is no set distance, and therefore it could be argued that a position could be earned) that a car should be parked. However, whether a policy should apply only to damaged cars and not to others with mechanical issues gets murky. But with the point out there for the fastest lap, should a team be told they can't fix the car? And beyond that, what would NASCAR do if a wrecked car earned the point for the fastest lap? Would it have to go through post-race tech to make sure any repairs didn't put it outside the legal measurements? The key for NASCAR is to make sure that wrecked cars don't spoil the show and that everyone has the opportunity to maximize their day. Should NASCAR put in a rule stating that, if the car is out for a certain number of laps — maybe half the race — it can't return? Should it add a rule that a car has to have completed a certain amount of the race at the time it sets its fast lap in order to earn that bonus point? Those are all possible ways to justify keeping a car out there — other than just satisfying the ego of a team that doesn't want to have a DNF (did not finish) on its record. NASCAR sometimes needs to save teams from themselves, and if the rules say they are done for the day, then the team can feel it did everything it could to stay in the race. The rules Sunday at Darlington didn't have Larson done for the day. "You come back here for the playoff opener, you don't really want to leave things that are questions in your mind of things that you can do," Daniels said. "The guys did such a good job to dig hard and get the car fixed with decent quality. We wanted to make the best of what that situation was." Daniels is right with that explanation. Larson had the right to be out there. If anything, don't hate the player, hate the rule. It certainly stinks for Blaney. But as they say, "that's racing." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports. He has spent decades covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
