Resources

Toronto Walking Resources

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:

 

Latest Issues

Walk Toronto writes to Medical Officer of Health to identify sidewalk crowding locations

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.