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Toronto Walking Resources

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The City of Toronto has a wide range of policies related to walking, but it’s not always easy to know about them or to find them. This post provides a convenient list of links to these various policies, so that anyone who is interested can get an overview what the City is doing, or at least says it should be doing, to improve the pedestrian experience in Toronto.

List revised in February 2014 to update links to new City of Toronto website, and links are added as they become available–last update March 2023.

Various non-municipal organizations also provide useful information about walking policy and programs:

 

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Anti-Racism Walking Resources

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To be truly committed to building safe streets for everyone in our communities, we need to address the systemic racism that exists and perpetuates through the street design process and decision making. Walk Toronto’s values and advocacy prioritizes the urgent need to address these injustices. We are committed to actively educating ourselves, collective listening, and collaborating against systemic racism now and always.

We have put together a list of resources and guides that educate us on systemic racism and oppression around walking experiences and infrastructure. This list is just a small sample of the abundance of resources available online. Over time, we will continue to add to the list.

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Past City of Toronto pedestrian collision reports

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For many years, the City of Toronto published one-page breakdowns of the statistics about collisions between vehicles and pedestrians in Toronto, and posted them in the “walking” section of the City of Toronto website. They stopped publishing them in 2013, and the old reports seem to have disappeared from the website. Instead, we now have some open data, which has interesting visualizations but only provides statistics on deaths and serious injuries, not all collisions, which does not give a full picture.

Thanks to the Internet Archive (hat tip to Gil Meslin for finding this), the old reports can be retrieved. They give an in-depth series of statistics on pedestrian collisions over 12 years (2000-2012). They also show the level of detailed information about pedestrian safety that the City of Toronto could be providing, but chooses not to, despite its Vision Zero rhetoric.

The way the statistics stop abruptly in September 2013 shows how suddenly the City decided to stop collecting this important safety information.