The Parked Index · Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Corridor scores — Wednesday, October 28, 2026
The morning board for Wednesday, October 28, 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 shown on the corridor read — QEII open
- Mostly dry, ice in places; Highway 2 corridor: lowest minus 6 degrees, winds to 22 km/h
- No Environment Canada warnings in force as of 5:07 AM MDT (EC check via Weather Navigation)
- Tonight's EC forecast low minus 6 degrees at Calgary, minus 3 at Edmonton — corridor low recorded as the colder endpoint, minus 6; Calgary overnight wind chill near minus 10 (+8)
- Tonight's snow at Edmonton: amount 2 cm, below the 5 cm scoring threshold; Calgary flurries carry no stated amount
Sources: Environment Canada · 511 Alberta (via Weather Navigation)
Yellowhead — Edmonton ↔ Jasper
- No closures or restrictions shown on the corridor read — Yellowhead open
- Mostly snow, ice in places; Highway 16 corridor: lowest minus 4 degrees, winds to 18 km/h
- No Environment Canada warnings in force as of 5:07 AM MDT (EC check via Weather Navigation)
- Tonight at Jasper: low minus 5 degrees, wind chill near minus 11 overnight (+8)
- Tonight at Jasper: 30 percent chance of flurries with no stated snow amount — no snow scoring threshold met
Sources: Environment Canada · 511 Alberta (via Weather Navigation)
Coquihalla — Hope ↔ Kamloops
- Open to through traffic overnight — checked 4:00 AM PDT, no incidents reported
- Partial closure / major restriction: 2 work zones in effect until Oct 31 (+40)
- M+S or 3-peak-mountain-snowflake tires required Oct 1 to Apr 30 (standing rule, not a chain-up requirement, not scored)
- No Environment Canada alerts shown for Merritt; Wednesday night EC Merritt forecast: mainly cloudy, snow level near valley bottom, low minus 4 degrees — no scoring threshold met
Sources: DriveBC (via Is The Coquihalla Open) · Environment Canada
ON 401 — Windsor ↔ Toronto ↔ Kingston
- No corridor closure — 401 mainline open through Toronto (live traffic aggregator, morning read)
- One lane-level 401 item: continuous construction eastbound express at McCowan Road, Toronto, 1 right lane, moderate, since Oct 26 — not a mainline closure (not scored)
- EC Toronto-area: no alerts shown; tonight a few clouds, low plus 7 degrees — no scoring threshold met
Sources: routeoutlook.com (live traffic aggregator, presenting Ontario 511 data) · Environment Canada · LIMITED confidence — single-source morning, flagged in the data
Scored Wednesday, October 28, 2026 from the morning's public alerts and road reports. Full overnight report: While You Were Parked — Wednesday, October 28, 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.