The DVP
The Don Valley Parkway, connecting downtown to the 401. Locals affectionately call it the "Don Valley Parking Lot" because it's almost always jammed.
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How it's used
Words like this are about place — the specific streets, boundaries and nicknames that tell you exactly which part of the GTA someone means.
“Avoid the DVP after 4, it's a parking lot.”
Where it comes from
Origin: Don Valley Parkway. Like a lot of GTA slang, its exact origin is debated even among people who use it every day — see our full history of Toronto slang for the bigger picture on how this vocabulary formed.
Sources
This entry was compiled through general research into Toronto/GTA slang rather than one single citable source — see the full bibliography in SOURCES.md and the wider context in our history of Toronto slang.