The Parked Index · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Corridor scores — Thursday, October 29, 2026
The morning board for Thursday, October 29, 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 ice; Highway 2 corridor: lowest minus 9 degrees, winds to 13 km/h
- No Environment Canada warnings in force as of 5:10 AM MDT (EC check via Weather Navigation)
- Tonight's EC forecast low minus 7 degrees at Edmonton, minus 6 at Calgary — corridor low recorded as the colder endpoint, minus 7; Edmonton overnight wind chill near minus 12 (+8)
- Edmonton light snow ending late this morning carries no stated amount — no snow scoring threshold met
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 8 degrees, winds to 11 km/h
- No Environment Canada warnings in force as of 5:10 AM MDT (EC check via Weather Navigation)
- Tonight at Jasper: low minus 13 degrees, wind chill near minus 16 overnight (+8)
- Jasper 30 percent chance of flurries early this morning 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; Thursday night EC Merritt forecast: partly cloudy, fog patches after midnight, low minus 2 degrees — no scoring threshold met
Sources: DriveBC (via Is The Coquihalla Open) · Environment Canada
ON 401 — Windsor ↔ Toronto ↔ Kingston
- Partial closure / major restriction: 401 eastbound express, all lanes closed at Markham Road, Toronto, after a collision, rated critical (+40)
- 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 separately)
- EC Toronto-area: no alerts shown; tonight partly cloudy, low plus 7 degrees — no scoring threshold met
- Fog at Toronto Pearson this morning, visibility 0.8 km — not a scoring input
Sources: routeoutlook.com (live traffic aggregator, presenting Ontario 511 data) · Environment Canada · LIMITED confidence — single-source morning, flagged in the data
Scored Thursday, October 29, 2026 from the morning's public alerts and road reports. Full overnight report: While You Were Parked — Thursday, October 29, 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.