[written by Natalie Alcoba, courtesy of nationalpost.com]

Peter J. Thompson / National Post files Repairs are estimated to cost the city $15-million a year.
The City of Toronto plans to spend $15-million a year over the next decade on major rehabilitation of the aging Gardiner Expressway, which will bring major traffic headaches.
Repairing the key artery that funnels motorists in and out of the city will mean lane and ramp closures starting this summer between Jarvis and Bay streets, for about six weeks at a time.
The work has nothing to do with the pieces of surface concrete that have been chipping off the expressway and landing on the road below, officials said.
“The key message from my point of view is the Gardiner Expressway is a sound piece of infrastructure. It’s perfectly safe,” said Peter Crockett, executive director of technical services for the City of Toronto.
But the recent “issues” with falling concrete prompted Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, chairman of the public works and infrastructure committee, to ask for a presentation on the state of the expressway, which was built in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It runs 18.6 kilometres, seven of which are elevated.
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