A Queensway on-ramp behind the Westgate Shopping Centre will permanently close Monday, according to Ontario's Ministry of Transportation. The closure of the on-ramp to the eastbound Highway 417 from Carling Avenue is part of a provincial project to widen the highway between Maitland Avenue and Island Park Drive. Once the on-ramp closes, the roughtly 3,900 drivers who take the ramp daily will be re-routed. Eastbound drivers will instead have to use the ramp at Carling Avenue and Kirkwood Avenue. The province said it's closing the "low volume" ramp because of plans to both add a fourth lane to the highway and give the other eastbound ramp a proper run-up to merge with traffic.

Source: CBC News March 25, 2018 20:28 UTC