Thousands of cars poured into the downtown core Thursday after a section of Highway 401 was closed off due to an early morning crash.

Toronto is grappling with issues such as housing affordability, homelessness, gridlock and overcrowded transit, and an uptick in gun violence.

"Our experts told us that wouldn't change ridership — if you just throw in a free day on the bus every now and again, it won't change behaviours. Well, they were wrong."

“They line up all the way back to Richmond."

Highway 13 was closed between highway 20 and highway 40 due to the weather, causing over 300 commuters to be stranded overnight.

The B.C. NDP party is promising, if elected, to get Metro Vancouver commuters moving again by increasing the provincial share of funding for public transportation improvements to 40 per cent and creating thousands of jobs over the next decade.

The blast of winter is creating bumper to bumper traffic through downtown Winnipeg.

A new report from Canada's Ecofiscal Commission concluded some of Canada's congested cities, including Calgary, could benefit by putting a price on road use.

Mayor John Tory plans to meet with the city's event organzers to prevent repeated road closures on the same streets throughout the year.

Gridlocked commuters in Canada's major cities are the focus of a new federal fund to help finance major new transit projects.