Got here a day or two after the article was posted
There have been/will be quite a few practice sessions for the "Bike for Dad" event (Dec. 11, may be declared a holiday) so that has been messing things up quite a bit with road closures, people on public tranpo. with bikes, practice viewers, etc.
Next week Dec 7, 10 and (possibly) 11 are holidays so traffic should be down (except for 11th) but public transpo. is swamped already as we enter high season, so expect challenges there.