{"id":631873,"date":"2026-04-27T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:37:08","slug":"hwy-401-issues-in-both-eastbound-and-westbound-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631873\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwy. 401 issues in both eastbound and westbound lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic is off to a rough start for commuters, with multiple incidents snarling traffic on both the eastbound and westbound 401.\u00a0(edited) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Commuters are facing heavy delays on Highway 401 on Monday morning after multiple issues snarled traffic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The eastbound express lanes were fully closed at Kipling Avenue due to a collision from 5:30 a.m. until just after 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another collision on the westbound Hwy. 401, meanwhile, blocked multiple express lanes near Hwy. 400. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That issue has since cleared as well but CP24 Traffic Specialist Meital Sperling said that drivers will nonetheless face a heavy back up along the majority of the highway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe good news is the lanes are open, the bad news is it is still a crawl,\u201d Sperling said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the injuries in both crashes are non-life-threatening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sperling said that it was \u201cjust a garbage start\u201d to the drive for many GTA residents on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She said that as of 8 a.m., there is still a \u201cheavy backup\u201d on the westbound Hwy. 401 all the way from Markham Road to Highway 400. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSpend a couple of bucks, take the 407, and you will save yourself a lot of time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic is off to a rough start for commuters, with multiple incidents snarling traffic on both the eastbound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-631873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631873","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=631873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}