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It was slow, slow driving for Metro motorists yesterday and today as trucks and cars groped their way along snow-swept roads and highways. This line o(...)
It was slow, slow driving for Metro motorists yesterday and today as trucks and cars groped their way along snow-swept roads and highways. This line o(...)

It was slow, slow driving for Metro motorists yesterday and today as trucks and cars groped their way along snow-swept roads and highways. This line o(...)

Date1/27/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: It was slow; slow driving for Metro motorists yesterday and today as trucks and cars groped their way along snow-swept roads and highways. This line of cars; on Highway 401 near Toronto International Airport; was typical as trips that ordinarily take a few minutes stretched out into hours. The Don Valley Parkway was closed yesterday by police; triggering the worst traffic jam in Metro history.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0014772F
The shape of things to come, Cars and trucks with their lights ablaze drive through snow on the Queen Elizabeth Way as blinding fall hit Metro today. (...)
The shape of things to come, Cars and trucks with their lights ablaze drive through snow on the Queen Elizabeth Way as blinding fall hit Metro today. (...)
12/13/1973
Hundreds of abandoned and damaged cars lined highways and roads leading into Metro after the storm
Hundreds of abandoned and damaged cars lined highways and roads leading into Metro after the storm
1/26/1978
Stranded by 20 inches of snow near London are these cars and transport trucks at a Highway 401 service centre south of Ingersoll. The snow fall was so(...)
Stranded by 20 inches of snow near London are these cars and transport trucks at a Highway 401 service centre south of Ingersoll. The snow fall was so(...)
11/24/1970
Ribbons of stalled cars and trucks out lined closed-down highways and roads in Wood-stock-Ingersoll area last night as drifts as high as 8 feet covere(...)
Ribbons of stalled cars and trucks out lined closed-down highways and roads in Wood-stock-Ingersoll area last night as drifts as high as 8 feet covere(...)
1/10/1978
Tractor-trailers pile up on the 401 in the snow, The eastbound lanes of Highway 401 are blocked by trucks and tractor-trailers that jackknifed and cra(...)
Tractor-trailers pile up on the 401 in the snow, The eastbound lanes of Highway 401 are blocked by trucks and tractor-trailers that jackknifed and cra(...)
12/20/1973
Huddling in phone booths, pedestrians take refuge today from blizzard that swept in from Illinois, paralyzing highways, Metro roads and streets. This (...)
Huddling in phone booths, pedestrians take refuge today from blizzard that swept in from Illinois, paralyzing highways, Metro roads and streets. This (...)
3/18/1977
Snarled by the snow, slowly moving lines of cars jam the southbound lanes of the Don Valley Parkway today
Snarled by the snow, slowly moving lines of cars jam the southbound lanes of the Don Valley Parkway today
12/10/1970
Cars are abandoned in the snow on Highway 401 at Trafalgar Rd
Cars are abandoned in the snow on Highway 401 at Trafalgar Rd
12/19/1973
Signs of frustration: Metro motorists drive on the shoulders of the highways as protesting truck drivers slowed traffic yesterday, the second day in a row truckers used their rigs to tie up roads
Signs of frustration: Metro motorists drive on the shoulders of the highways as protesting truck drivers slowed traffic yesterday, the second day in a row truckers used their rigs to tie up roads
5/16/1991
Slushing home. Snow, snow go away. Come again some other day . . . and especially not to Leslie St. at rush hour. At least the motorists had warm cars(...)
Slushing home. Snow, snow go away. Come again some other day . . . and especially not to Leslie St. at rush hour. At least the motorists had warm cars(...)
4/4/1979
Peel keeps digging out ? and drifting in, More than a week after the big snowstorm that paralyzed highway traffic, Ontario Department of Highways' plo(...)
Peel keeps digging out ? and drifting in, More than a week after the big snowstorm that paralyzed highway traffic, Ontario Department of Highways' plo(...)
2/2/1971
Surprise snow storm yesterday has evening rush-hour traffic in a snarl at Highway 10 and Steeles Ave
Surprise snow storm yesterday has evening rush-hour traffic in a snarl at Highway 10 and Steeles Ave
11/14/1972