my two cents.....I happen to fall into the camp of "big cities have events that cause inconvenience to some at sometimes" camp.
That said, I think there are things that can be done to make it better.
Someone mentioned the Queensway, it is a route I have used during Gardiner closures and it does a good job on weekends taking some of that overflow....but it gets frustrating when you get to, either, Queen or King and find that the road closure hasn't been combined with parking restrictions.....so you move fairly smoothly when you get to the "split" and find that you have to pick between two one lane roads that happen to have streetcars running in that one lane. When the Garidner is closed, one (or both) of those roads should have no parking in the right lane (IMO).
Someone also mentioned the Jays game today and how the situation is not helped by "folks from 'saugua not taking the GO to the Jays game"....maybe a bit of co-ordination should come into play...maybe this would have been a good weekend for Metrolinx and the Jays to work together to include GO fare in with the Jays ticket (or some level of subsidization)....maybe, even, it would have been a good weekend to show some smarts and not have the Gardiner closed AND GO Lakeshore West service cut in half to hourly? A large Jays crowd on Father's Day is hardly a surprise....the Gardiner being closed was not decided yesterday and neither was the cutting of the GO service on LSW.
This sort of co-ordination is what I think of when I hear Mr. Tory talk about doing these things better.