City Hall Watcher #270: An INTERSECTION INSPECTION SPECIAL responding to requests for looks at Yonge & St Clair and Liberty Village. Oh, and on a lark, 1,000 intersections, ranked by traffic volume
I agree. Figure out an average number of people per car and an average number of people per bus and then use those numbers for a fair comparison of how many actual individual people are moving through an intersection.
Might be worth adding a column to the big 2023 data table that uses a conservative multiplier based on bus load — I'll do some research into what makes sense.
The population centre for LV is significantly further east, most people don't end up walking along liberty st past Dufferin because there are not many destinations west of there that are south of king.
Bus is a tiny sliver in all these graphs, it could be interesting to figure out average people on a bus and scale it up
I agree. Figure out an average number of people per car and an average number of people per bus and then use those numbers for a fair comparison of how many actual individual people are moving through an intersection.
Definitely a great point — I did this with a previously Inspection on Eglinton, and it was pretty eye-opening: https://toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/inspector-gadget
Might be worth adding a column to the big 2023 data table that uses a conservative multiplier based on bus load — I'll do some research into what makes sense.
The population centre for LV is significantly further east, most people don't end up walking along liberty st past Dufferin because there are not many destinations west of there that are south of king.
Agree -- I'd love to do something further east. Slim pickings, unfortunately. Hopefully I can come back to it.
Great reading.
Winchester and Ontario: this is kind of a stub of an intersection. Ontario ends at Winchester and Winchester ends at Ontario.
Funny too because the bike lanes were installed in late July to late August so their use probably wasn't captured in this traffic study