Walk Toronto has written to Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health, with a list of locations where long and persistent lineups or obstructions have resulted in sidewalk crowding that makes it impossible for pedestrians to follow the physical distancing recommendations for stopping the spread of COVID-19.
The locations were crowdsourced by Walk Toronto from our steering committee and from our followers on social media. They were collected in a spreadsheet, and have also been posted on Google Maps.
Our letter is a response to an invitation by the City of Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health to identify locations where sidewalks are being crowded due to lineups, and to the action by the City of Toronto to open a curb lane to pedestrians at a pizzeria with long and persistent lineups. It is our hope that the City of Toronto will use this information to identify further locations where a curb lane should be closed to vehicles in order to enable pedestrians to maintain the recommended physical distance.
- Read Walk Toronto’s letter to Dr. de Villa (PDF)
- See the spreadsheet (as of April 24, 2020. Version locked). Note that this information may be updated in the future.
- See the Google map