{"id":494069,"date":"2026-02-23T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494069\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:31:13","slug":"water-main-break-causing-delays-on-gardiner-near-park-lawn-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494069\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break causing delays on Gardiner near Park Lawn Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0February 23, 2026 at 7:16AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0February 23, 2026 at 6:22AM EST<\/p>\n<p>CP24\u2019s Traffic Specialist Lisa Morales on the multiple lanes being blocked due to a watermain break on the Gardiner Expressway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Fire Services is warning of \u201csignificant delays\u201d on the Gardiner Expressway for most of the day today due to a water main break near the highway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A spokesperson for TFS said two lanes are blocked in each direction west of Park Lawn Road due to a broken water main that appears to be under or close to the highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said water can be seen in multiple locations in those lanes and cold temperatures are exacerbating the issue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of about 6 a.m., TFS noted that \u201ctraffic is still flowing\u201d but major delays are expected for the duration of the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crews will also need to repair the roadway once the water main break has been fixed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police, firefighters, Toronto Water, and road crews remain on scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0February 23, 2026 at 7:16AM EST Published:\u00a0February 23, 2026 at 6:22AM EST CP24\u2019s Traffic Specialist Lisa Morales on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-494069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}