Taylor Swift has officially made her move in Canada.
After arriving in Toronto on Thursday, the pop star and her team were greeted by a luxury escort service led by Toronto Police. Despite the excitement surrounding the six-show Elas Tour line-up scheduled for the Rogers Center, the convoy caused controversy among local residents, who caused extensive traffic delays.
“This is a serious problem in Toronto,” said one user. I wrote to X. “It's great that so many people are excited about a Taylor Swift concert, but let's be serious. We have a very serious transportation problem that is disrupting so many people's lives. It's affecting their financial well-being, but we shouldn't make celebrities wait in traffic.”
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Taylor Swift arrived in Toronto on Thursday. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
“Six days of Taylor Swift concerts in Toronto means a week of even worse traffic than usual,” says another. I wrote.
Toronto police had a reason for such an excessive convoy, considering the fact that three of Swift's concerts were canceled in August due to terrorist threats in Vienna.
In early August, Swift learned of the bombing plot and canceled three shows in Austria at Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium.
August 7th, authorities arrested A 17-year-old man and a 19-year-old man are accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Swift's concert in Vienna, scheduled for August 8-10. An 18-year-old man was arrested on August 8th.
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Swift has six performances scheduled in Toronto. (John Shearer/TAS24/TAS Copyright Management via Getty Images)
Later that month, the CIA Deputy Director confirmed that this was the intention. Terrorist plot at Swift's show In Vienna, the intention was to kill “huge numbers” of people, including Americans.
That's why Toronto needs to step up security, said Toronto police spokesperson Nadine Ramadan.
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“Taylor Swift attracts a large and very active fan base, and for public safety reasons, we are expediting her movement within the city,” Ramadan told Fox News Digital. “We are doing so,” he said in a statement. “To be clear, we supplemented with some reconnaissance vehicles and motorcycles, but the rest were part of her own security team. For operational security. , I cannot share the exact number.”
After Swift's first show in Toronto, concertgoers accepted bumper-to-bumper traffic. (John Shearer/TAS24/TAS Copyright Management via Getty Images)
“There was no complete shutdown at any point,” Ramadan added. “The highway was not closed. There was just a phased closure at the Gardiner River.” [Expressway] It took a total of 20 minutes via Highway 427. ”
After their first show in Toronto on Thursday, the Swifties fully embraced bumper-to-bumper traffic.
“Instead of road rage, we had Swifty's smile and glow,” one concertgoer said. The Star. “Some people wore cowboy boots and hats, others wore costumes taken from song lyrics, like refrigerators and traffic lights…The result was one of the most amazing traffic jams, mainly because of what it means to be a Swiftie. This is due to
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Fox News Digital's Janelle Ash and Elizabeth Stanton contributed to this report.
