Toronto traffic woes: Indy driver rents bicycle, then runs to get to track

The notoriety surrounding nan sluggish streets of Toronto continues to turn arsenic 1 of nan world’s apical drivers was forced to hop connected a motorcycle get to work.

This weekend, Toronto will play big to nan Honda Indy, an yearly arena that sees title cars scope speeds of up to 200 km/h connected roads for illustration Lake Shore Boulevard arsenic they zoom down nan Exhibition Place Street Circuit.

Those speeds are a acold outcry from what 1 of this weekend’s drivers faced arsenic he made his measurement to nan agency connected Thursday.

“I sewage stuck successful postulation arsenic well, truthful I really rented a motorcycle to get present successful clip and past ran nan remainder of nan way,” driver Lochie Hughes told reporters.

Despite nan trek, nan Aussie says it feels for illustration location to beryllium successful Toronto.

“It’s cool conscionable to beryllium extracurricular on nan water. That reminds maine a small of backmost location successful Australia,” he said.

He besides praised his accommodations, noting that his edifice had Smarties, which besides reminded him of his autochthonal land.

Residents of Toronto were already dealing pinch regular closures for construction, and now nan Indy has besides closed Strachan Avenue and Lakeshore Boulevard for nan weekend.

Hughes is not nan only personage who has had to look for replacement intends of proscription successful Toronto arsenic of late.

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At nan extremity of June, former One Direction prima Niall Horan posted a video to X, formerly Twitter, that showed him jumping retired of his car to get to Scotiabank Arena for a concert.

Horan was performing successful Toronto connected June 29 and 30 erstwhile he received a sensation of nan city’s traffic.

The video originates pinch nan vocalist looking into nan camera and saying, “Traffic’s excessively bad successful Toronto, truthful we’re stepping to nan venue.”

He past originates his locomotion nether nan Gardiner Expressway, arsenic a screen type of nan Proclaimers opus I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) originates to play. The screen opus is performed by Horan and James Cordon during an quality on The Late Late Show.