Water/Drainage at Gardiner Expressway

This is why the street floods when it rains hard, steps from the Yonge St at Queens Quay East North Side bus stop.

We heard you

Case built & sent · Aug 19, 4:50 PM

City & councillor received it

City of Toronto + Cllr. Malik

The city responded

Ref #10007457 ↗ Transportation Services

6/1

Past the standard

City standard: 1 days

Day 6. 5 days past the city's own standard.

The city's published standard for Water Drainage is 1 days. Your councillor is the right escalation now.

Email Cllr. Malik

Checked against Toronto 311 on August 23, 2026: New.

Gardiner Expressway Toronto

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What's nearby

Downtown Alternative School

School

566m

St Michael Catholic Elementary School - Bldg 1

School

626m

Yonge St at Queens Quay East North Side

Bus Stop · anchors this report's story

176m

The Esplanade at Yonge St

Bus Stop

183m

50 Queens Quay East Park

Park

277m

This street's story: 22 city catch basins and 19 manholes serve this block. A blocked catch basin is the usual reason a curb floods like this.

The case we sent

Report details · AI-written, reviewed by the reporter

Standing water is pooling across the concrete sidewalk under the Gardiner Expressway at Yonge Street, creating a significant puddle in the pedestrian pathway that forces people to navigate around it; the pavement is structurally intact but drainage is failing, with water not flowing toward nearby catch basins or storm drains, creating a trip hazard and accessibility barrier for pedestrians.

Severity High

Description · in the reporter's words

Every time it rains the passage on yonge under gardiner does not drain properly so pedestrians have to jump Over a puddle

What we did for you

✓ We heard you, and saw what you saw 4:50:10
✓ Made sure no faces or licence plates travel with your photo 4:50:10
✓ Wrote the formal report in the city's own language, for you 4:50:10
✓ Found your ward and put your councillor on the record, for you 4:50:10
✓ Delivered it to Toronto 311, the same minute 4:50:26
✓ Caught the city's reference number so you never have to chase it Aug 20
✓ And when the city says fixed, we check the record and bring the answer back here ongoing