Toronto’s traffic is allegedly improving—it’s not even the worst in Canada anymore
Toronto’s traffic is allegedly improving—it’s not even the worst in Canada anymore
We guess we ought to pipe down about how closing Queen and Spadina is causing a carmageddon—Toronto’s rush hour gridlock is nothing next to the snarls in oh-so-livable Vancouver. A recent study by GPS-maker TomTom compared the difference in travel time between non-peak and peak periods for 26 cities. After noted car-loving town Los Angeles, Vancouver had the worst rush hour delays, while Toronto came in a distant ninth (a marked improvement from its number three finish last year). In case you were curious, Toronto’s traffic is worst on Thursday evenings and the roads are clearest on Friday mornings. [Globe and Mail]
I think we all know this study is B.S. Anyone who has sat on the 401, DVP, Gardiner, Bloor, etc. in rush hour can attest that it’s 10 times worse than Vancouver. The stusy looked at differentials, not absolute traffic congestion. In other words, if non-peak hours are empty, the differential is high. No way on earth Vancouver has worse congestion than NYC, Chicago, Toronto and Montreal (which for some reason is not even on the list). The fact that Ottawa is there ahead of NYC automatically discredits this report.
After living in toronto for many years. . And now calling Vancouver home… This study is complete bs. Toronto’s traffic is nausea inducing day and night. It takes 45 minutes to get across dundas going west to east on a Tuesday afternoon, let along the dvp or gardener at rush hour. I drive every day in Vancouver and once in a while during rush hour I sit in downtown for ten mintues. It’s so not even comparable.