More than 1,700 tickets were handed out to drivers who improperly used the HOV lanes in the run up to and during the Pan American Games.
According to a release from the Toronto Police Service’s Pan Am Games unit, officers with the Ontario Provincial Police force and the TPS issued a total of 1,735 tickets for improper use of the HOV lanes between June 29 and July 26 and another 2,000 tickets for other Highway Traffic Act offences that were committed in the lanes.
The lanes were only open to accredited games vehicles, public transit vehicles, taxis, emergency vehicles and vehicles with three or more people during the Pan American Games, however the restrictions have been loosened for the Parapan Am Games as vehicles with just two or more people will now be allowed to use the lanes.
The temporary lanes, which will remain in effect until Aug. 18, run along the Queen Elizabeth Way, the Gardiner Expressway, Lake Shore Boulevard, Jane Street south of Highway 407 and highways 401, 427 and 404.
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