{"id":643754,"date":"2026-05-02T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:06:08","slug":"power-outage-planned-this-weekend-in-downtown-toronto-toronto-hydro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643754\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage planned this weekend in downtown Toronto: Toronto Hydro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many residents in a large swath of downtown Toronto will be without power overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Hydro says equipment replacement work being done by Hydro One will take place starting at 11 p.m. Saturday until 11 a.m. Sunday morning.  <\/p>\n<p>The utility says the outage will impact select residential and commercial buildings within the area of Queen Street West south to Front Street and Bathurst Street east to Bay Street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/planned-power-outage-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4825743\"  \/>Outlined area of planned power outage scheduled for downtown Toronto on May 2 and 3. CITYNEWS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe planned outage will only impact some residential and commercial buildings in that area, not all,\u201d Toronto Hydro said in a reply to an online post, adding that impacted customers were issued an advanced notice.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police tell CityNews that it was \u201cnot aware\u201d of these plans and says if traffic signals are not operational, then drivers are reminded to treat those intersections as a four-way stop and use extra caution when proceeding through the intersections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are affected by the outage should plan ahead and ensure their electronics (cellphones, tablets, vehicles, etc.) are fully charged in case they are needed in an emergency,\u201d a police spokesperson said, adding they would be monitoring calls and responding accordingly when needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many residents in a large swath of downtown Toronto will be without power overnight. Toronto Hydro says equipment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-643754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643754","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=643754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}