Starting Monday, Toronto police say they will begin their “heightened rush-hour enforcement” to combat congestion and gridlock during rush-hour on city streets.

Police say officers from the parking enforcement unit will be concentrating on the downtown core during the morning and afternoon rush-hours, ticketing and towing vehicles that obstruct major routes.

In January, police conducted a similar ticketing and towing blitz in the downtown core. 

Police say, since then, they have issued 61,830 tickets and towed 12,354 vehicles on rush-hour routes.