The Parked Index · Thursday, November 5, 2026
Corridor scores — Thursday, November 5, 2026
The morning board for Thursday, November 5, 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; corridor lowest minus 5 degrees near Athabasca, winds to 23 km/h near Fort Macleod
- No Environment Canada warnings in force as of 6:03 AM CST (EC check via Weather Navigation)
- Tonight's EC forecast low plus 2 degrees at Edmonton, plus 1 at Calgary — corridor low recorded as plus 1; no 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 ice — surface worsened from yesterday's mostly dry, ice in places; corridor lowest minus 5 degrees, winds to 17 km/h
- No Environment Canada warnings in force as of 6:03 AM CST (EC check via Weather Navigation)
- Jasper 6:00 a.m. read plus 2.7 degrees — above freezing after yesterday's minus 4.9 dawn; tonight low plus 3, wind chill minus 5 this morning — no scoring threshold met
- Icefields Parkway snow-tire or chain rule in force since Nov 1 (Parks Canada) — context, not scored
Sources: Environment Canada · 511 Alberta (via Weather Navigation)
Coquihalla — Hope ↔ Kamloops
- Open to through traffic — no incidents reported, last DriveBC poll 2:00 AM PDT (via Is The Coquihalla Open); no full closures reported as of 5:16 AM MST (Weather Navigation summit page, 511 feed)
- Partial closure / major restriction: paving operations with lane closures in both directions, Box Canyon Chain-Up to Zopkios Brake Check and Coquihalla Lakes Road to Larson Hill (+40)
- Summit ice — road surface estimated minus 1 degree; limited visibility with fog between Exit 202 Portia and Exit 228 Coquihalla Lakes Road, last update 2:28 AM PCT (DriveBC)
- 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; tonight EC Merritt forecast: partly cloudy, low plus 5 degrees — no scoring threshold met
Sources: DriveBC (via Is The Coquihalla Open) · Environment Canada
ON 401 — Windsor ↔ Toronto ↔ Kingston
- ON-404 HOV ramp at the 401 interchange: all lanes closed after a collision, rated critical, reported about 35 minutes before the 7:17 AM EST read — partial closure at the interchange (+40)
- 401 mainline not closed: eastbound police investigation at Westney Road, Ajax, 1 right lane and shoulder closed, rated moderate — lane-level, not scored
- Yesterday's Markham Road collision is gone from the incident list — cleared
- 1 of Toronto's 9 major highways has a major incident or full closure; 1 is slow or has lanes closed, 7 are clear
- EC Toronto-area: no alerts shown; tonight cloudy, 60 percent chance of showers this evening, low 9 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 Thursday, November 5, 2026 from the morning's public alerts and road reports. Full overnight report: While You Were Parked — Thursday, November 5, 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.