This article was translated from content from CTV News / CP24.
“I think it’s a first for everyone. I’ve never seen that before,” Maveric Lamoureux, Utah’s Quebec defenseman, told the camera as they filmed the team’s march to Scotiabank Arena.
The former Drummondville Voltigeurs player in the QMJHL explained that the team bus was not moving at all in Sunday evening traffic, just hours after the Santa Claus parade and the road closures that caused it. result.
“So it was the whole team that marched in the street,” he said, adding that she would probably miss her 5:15 p.m. pre-match meeting.
The Utah Hockey Club, formerly the Arizona Coyotes, met the Leafs for the first time on Sunday evening. The home side won 3-2, extending their winning streak to four thanks to Mitch Marner’s two-goal surge in the second period.
Toronto traffic also remains undefeated in its celebrity confrontations. In July, former One Direction singer Niall Horan was forced to walk to his own concert due to traffic jams. Later that month, racing driver Lochie Hughes had to rent a bike to get to the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy on time.
In September, Mayor Olivia Chow said the city’s plan to combat congestion was working, but she acknowledged that the economic impact of traffic jams was “serious” and cost up to $11 billion a year.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded to the news by saying traffic in the city was a “serious problem” that could be solved in part by “putting sanity back into decisions about bike lanes.”
Earlier this month, the government introduced a bill that would require municipalities to ask the province for permission to install bike lanes when they remove a car lane. In addition, the province added a new regulation that provides for the removal of sections of bicycle paths on three major highways in Toronto.
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