The Parked Index · Friday, October 23, 2026
Corridor scores — Friday, October 23, 2026
The morning board for Friday, October 23, 2026, scored from the overnight Environment Canada alerts and provincial 511 reports in that day's While You Were Parked. Zero is a clear road; one hundred is a closed one. The full method is on the Parked Index page.
QEII — Calgary ↔ Edmonton
- No closures or restrictions overnight — QEII open
- Mostly dry, ice in places; Highway 2 corridor: lowest 1°C, winds to 37 km/h
- No Environment Canada alerts in force (EC-direct Edmonton + Calgary pages; ECCC warning check via Weather Navigation, 5:17 AM)
- This morning's storm: rain mixed with snow ending this afternoon, 5–10 mm rainfall, gusts to 70–80 km/h — below every scoring threshold
- Tonight's EC forecast low minus 4°C (Calgary) — no threshold met
Sources: Environment Canada · 511 Alberta (via Weather Navigation)
Yellowhead — Edmonton ↔ Jasper
- No closures or restrictions overnight — Yellowhead open
- Mostly dry, ice in places; lowest 0°C, wind 23 km/h
- Jasper end overnight: rain changed to snow — 2 cm in the valley, 10 cm only over higher terrain off the corridor road — below the 5 cm roadway scoring threshold
- No EC alerts in force (EC Entrance page: 'No alerts in effect')
- Friday morning: snow ending early, then clearing; Friday night EC low minus 4°C at Jasper, wind chill minus 7
Sources: Environment Canada · 511 Alberta (via Weather Navigation)
Coquihalla — Hope ↔ Kamloops
- Open to through traffic overnight — checked 4:00 AM PDT
- Partial closure / major restriction: two work zones through Oct 24 — lane closures one direction at a time at Nicolum Creek Bridge, paving lane closures both directions (+40)
- No chain-up requirement posted; BC chain season in force since Oct 1 (standing, not scored)
- EC Merritt: no alerts; Friday morning wind chill minus 9 — above the minus 10 scoring threshold
- Friday night EC low minus 5°C — no threshold met
Sources: DriveBC (via Is The Coquihalla Open) · Environment Canada
ON 401 — Windsor ↔ Toronto ↔ Kingston
- No corridor closure — 401W clear, 401C/401E slow (live camera aggregator, 5:09 AM MDT)
- One current incident: collision, 401 eastbound collector at Weston Rd, Toronto — left shoulder and 2 left lanes closed, express lanes open; lane-level, not a corridor closure (not scored)
- EC Toronto-area: no alerts in force; Friday mainly sunny, high 13
- Friday night EC low plus 2°C with patchy frost — no threshold met
Sources: routeoutlook.com (live traffic aggregator) · Environment Canada · LIMITED confidence — single-source morning, flagged in the data
Scored Friday, October 23, 2026 from the morning's public alerts and road reports. Full overnight report: While You Were Parked — Friday, October 23, 2026. Machine-readable: this board as JSON.
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Advisory only — the Parked Index summarizes public alerts and never replaces them. Always check 511 and Environment Canada before rolling. Corrections run in the next edition with a note; scores are never silently edited.