{"id":20426,"date":"2011-06-09T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=20426"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:18:39","slug":"finally-the-map-of-walking-in-toronto-with-the-top-25-walking-intersections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/06\/09\/finally-the-map-of-walking-in-toronto-with-the-top-25-walking-intersections\/","title":{"rendered":"The top 25 walking intersections in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We finally have a map of where and how much we walk in Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As part of Global’s story this week on the most dangerous intersections for pedestrians<\/a>, their map-maker Patrick Cain put together a simple map showing the City of Toronto’s pedestrian counts (number of pedestrians in one day) for all signalized intersections in Toronto (where there are at least 500 pedestrians a day).<\/p>\n

The deeper the red, the larger number of pedestrians — so, not surprisingly, walking is concentrated in the centre of the city. It’s worth noticing, however, that major intersections all over the suburbs also have heavy pedestrian traffic. It’s a myth that there are no pedestrians in the suburbs — there are many, but they don’t show up as strongly because they are more spread out.<\/p>\n

If you go to the map itself<\/a>, you can click on individual intersections to see how heavy the pedestrian traffic is (note that, because the squares are small, clicking on the squares is a bit finicky).<\/p>\n

Patrick Cain kindly sent me the list of the 25 most pedestrian-heavy intersections. The surprise is that the intersection with the heaviest pedestrian traffic isn’t downtown, but is in fact Yonge and Eglinton — by quite a wide margin. It suggests that, as many people have proposed (including some of the local councillors), Yonge and Eglinton should be the next candidate for a scramble intersection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here is the list of the 25 Toronto intersections with the heaviest daily pedestrian traffic, with their pedestrian counts:<\/p>\n

EGLINTON and YONGE: 42680
\nBAY and DUNDAS: 35585
\nBAY and WELLINGTON: 32319
\nDUNDAS and YONGE: 31802
\nCARLTON and YONGE: 29115
\nQUEEN and YONGE: 28209
\nADELAIDE and BAY: 27086
\nKING and YONGE: 25743
\nBLOOR and YONGE: 25696
\nBAY and BLOOR: 24246
\nST CLAIR and YONGE: 24195
\nUNIVERSITY and YORK: 24056
\nADELAIDE and YONGE: 23297
\nGERRARD and YONGE: 22771
\nBLOOR and CHURCH: 22634
\nBAY and KING: 22398
\nDUNDAS and UNIVERSITY: 21610
\nHARBORD and ST GEORGE: 21163
\nBAY and COLLEGE: 21161
\nJOHN and QUEEN: 20656
\nWELLESLEY and YONGE: 20133
\nBAY and QUEEN: 20124
\nAVENUE and BLOOR: 18872
\nFRONT and JOHN: 18295
\nUNIVERSITY and WELLINGTON: 17246<\/p>\n

The pedestrian counts are not completely comparable — there are not the resources to do them all on the same day, so they have been done on an ongoing basis, mostly since 2007. All of them are done on weekdays between 7:30 am and 6:00 pm, but the season and the weather varies (which probably affects pedestrian counts more than car counts).\u00a0 Thus, for example, it seems improbable to me that Bay and Dundas gets more pedestrians than Yonge and Dundas (it may also be that Yonge and Dundas gets more walking traffic at night, after the count had ended). So this list is not definitive in terms of the details, but these are certainly useful ballpark figures.<\/p>\n

The fact that most of these intersections are downtown is no surpise. What stands out to me is the extent to which Yonge Street really is Toronto’s spine. Ten of the top 25 intersections are along Yonge Street, including both of the intersections that are north of Bloor (Eglinton and St. Clair). The subway certainly has something to do with it, but none of the other subway lines (University\/Spadina, Bloor\/Danforth, Sheppard) are represented anywhere near as heavily.\u00a0 Yonge is such an unpreposessing street in so many ways, but more of us cross it every day than any other street in the city.<\/p>\n

The City of Toronto has had pedestrian counts for all signalized intersections for many years (because they need to do them to figure out how they want to set up the signals) but has never made it easy for anyone to get access to them. It took a freedom of information request to extract them from the City, and journalistic resources to make this information publicly available. It should not have been so difficult to share this useful information.<\/p>\n

Now, I am happy to say, Global News has thoughtfully open-sourced the complete data set<\/a>. I hope others will be able to use it to come up with other interesting insights into walking in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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