The Parked Index · Saturday, October 24, 2026
Corridor scores — Saturday, October 24, 2026
The morning board for Saturday, October 24, 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 minus 7°C, winds to 25 km/h
- No Environment Canada warnings in force as of 5:16 AM MDT (EC check via Weather Navigation)
- Tonight's EC forecast low minus 5°C at both Edmonton and Calgary — wind chill minus 8 to minus 9 overnight, above every scoring threshold
Sources: Environment Canada · 511 Alberta (via Weather Navigation)
Yellowhead — Edmonton ↔ Jasper
- No closures or restrictions overnight — Yellowhead open
- Mostly dry, ice in places; Highway 16 corridor: lowest minus 7°C, winds to 41 km/h
- No Environment Canada warnings in force as of 5:16 AM MDT (EC check via Weather Navigation)
- Tonight at Jasper: cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries, low minus 5°C, wind chill minus 10 overnight — wind chill at the minus 10 threshold (+8)
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 in effect until 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)
- No Environment Canada alerts shown for Merritt; Saturday night EC Merritt forecast gives no low — periods of rain, temperature steady near plus 3 — so no low is recorded
Sources: DriveBC (via Is The Coquihalla Open) · Environment Canada
ON 401 — Windsor ↔ Toronto ↔ Kingston
- No corridor closure — 401 west, central and east all slow through Toronto (live traffic aggregator, 4:46 AM EDT)
- One current 401 item: nightly maintenance, 401 westbound between Regional Road 25 and Guelph Line, Milton — moderate, lane-level, not a corridor closure (not scored)
- EC Toronto-area: no alerts shown; today sunny, high 16; tonight clear, low plus 3 with risk of frost — no threshold met
Sources: routeoutlook.com (live traffic aggregator, presenting Ontario 511 data) · Environment Canada · LIMITED confidence — single-source morning, flagged in the data
Scored Saturday, October 24, 2026 from the morning's public alerts and road reports. Full overnight report: While You Were Parked — Saturday, October 24, 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.