{"id":2855,"date":"2008-03-05T15:18:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2008-03-05T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T20:41:47","slug":"how-torontonians-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/03\/05\/how-torontonians-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Torontonians travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/193\/489402417_000a8f1c57.jpg\" height=\"345\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Posted in our headlines today was news about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/toronto\/story\/2008\/03\/04\/car-toronto.html\">Toronto&#8217;s choice of transport<\/a>, and the numbers indicate that &#8212; as a city &#8212; we really like to drive (especially the older we get). The 2006 Census <a href=\"http:\/\/www12.statcan.ca\/english\/census06\/data\/topics\/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2006&amp;APATH=3&amp;PID=90657&amp;THEME=76&amp;PTYPE=88971&amp;VID=0&amp;GK=NA&amp;GC=99&amp;FL=0&amp;RL=0&amp;FREE=0&amp;METH=0&amp;S=1&amp;GID=838003\">data on transport<\/a> does not provide ward-by-ward stats yet, but we can certainly see some trends (young people certainly know how to carpool, older people hate to ride a bike or take transit).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve separated the data by age range and provided a quick line graph (below) of the results. We&#8217;d love to hear your reactions to this new data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOTALS:  \t\t2,433,060 population of Toronto<\/strong><br \/>\nbike: 1.1%<br \/>\nwalk: 4.7%<br \/>\ntransit: 18.5%<br \/>\ndrive: 71% (10.5% are passengers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>16-24 years old:  \t\t333,585<\/strong><br \/>\nbike: 1.5%<br \/>\nwalk: 9.4%<br \/>\ntransit: 30.8%<br \/>\ndrive: 57.2% (33.6% are passengers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>25-34 year olds:  \t\t538,510<\/strong><br \/>\nbike: 1.2%<br \/>\nwalk: 5.2%<br \/>\ntransit: 26.5%<br \/>\ndrive: 66.1% (9.9% are passengers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>35-44 year olds:  \t\t649,670<\/strong><br \/>\nbike: 0.9%<br \/>\nwalk: 3.5%<br \/>\ntransit: 19.8%<br \/>\ndrive: 74.8% (6.8% are passengers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>45-54 year olds:  \t\t566,405<\/strong><br \/>\nbike: 0.7%<br \/>\nwalk: 3.3%<br \/>\ntransit: 18.7%<br \/>\ndrive: 76.4% (7.2% are passengers)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3269\/2313209222_e8b0bfefc0_o.jpg\" height=\"478\" width=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/doubelcrossed.ca\">Tania Tiziana-Burdi<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted in our headlines today was news about Toronto&#8217;s choice of transport, and the numbers indicate that &#8212; as a city &#8212; we really like to drive (especially the older we get). The 2006 Census data on transport does not provide ward-by-ward stats yet, but we can certainly see some trends (young people certainly know<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/03\/05\/how-torontonians-travel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;How Torontonians travel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-traffic","category-transit","category-walking"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Torontonians travel - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/03\/05\/how-torontonians-travel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Torontonians travel - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Posted in our headlines today was news about Toronto&#8217;s choice of transport, and the numbers indicate that &#8212; as a city &#8212; we really like to drive (especially the older we get). 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