Cops RANDOMLY shutting down streets!?!?

Understated · 11-07-2005, 12:20 AM

ok i'm not 100% on this but i was driving home this evening and at kipling and west humber road (right at hy&zels) a cop was blocking traffic from going further north on kipling...which made little to no sense to me as i didn't see any flashing lights beyond....no ambulance nothing

could this be for the stupid work to rule thing?.....they think they can shut down a street

of course i could be wrong.....maybe justin or some other rexdale/north etobicoke visitor can confirm

Jim .E. · 11-07-2005, 12:21 AM

could be a crime scene, the cherries arent always on, could be you got there just when they decided to close the section down

***Gamite*** · 11-07-2005, 12:22 AM

There probably was an accident further up, but they didn't have their lights on.

Ryousuke · 11-07-2005, 01:10 AM

Or they are doing some Maintanance to electric wires there.. I was going from work on Kipling had to explore some random neighbourhood so I could get to Islington and then get on Finch >.<

Understated · 11-07-2005, 01:13 AM

lol u got owned more than me....yeah i had to book it left turn onto rexdale and book it in front of woodbine centre

....teh side streets were flooded with 45kipling buses and random cars....blah

Ryousuke · 11-07-2005, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Superman87

lol u got owned more than me....yeah i had to book it left turn onto rexdale and book it in front of woodbine centre

....teh side streets were flooded with 45kipling buses and random cars....blah

Good thing I got off late tonight I didn't encounter anything and was speeding through the area and still got home in 20 mins

Furious · 11-07-2005, 01:45 AM

they do it quite often if they are filming in that area, a few times down near the docks where hte film studios are, they have blocked off hte street and i thought it was some sort of accident , only to see further down the street a film crew... but thats a shot in the dark

1BADBMR · 11-07-2005, 04:10 AM

I saw the same thing too on my way to work tonight. I had to take a detour to martingrove.
I figure another criminal activity going on. Its not an uncommon thing you see in Rexdale.

Soldo · 11-07-2005, 10:42 AM

I had some roads closed on my way home also, but it was because some big ass trees fell over, and hit the power lines!

Justin e36 · 11-07-2005, 03:26 PM

Made a few phone calls. There was a broken water main... chances are you wouldn't have noticed the flooded as it rushed northwards (to the Humber River bridge) and dumped out there.

Apparently there is still a construction crew there that are replacing the main from approx 50m south of the Humber River, to 100m north of West Humber blvd. (right at Hy & Zels). Haven't had a chance to see for myself, but since its a water main I would assume traffic has either been re-routed elsewhere, or it has been trimmed down to 2 lanes.

J