Walk Toronto wrote to Toronto City Council to strongly support the member motion by Councillor Josh Matlow, seconded by Mike Colle, to proceed with detailed design and operational analysis for a Pedestrian Priority Phase at Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, to be implemented in 2027. The motion was adopted by City Council.
Yonge and Eglinton has long been one of Toronto’s busiest pedestrian intersections, with pedestrian volumes far greater than the number of vehicles and comparable to the existing pedestrian scrambles at Yonge and Dundas and Yonge and Bloor. In the past, a scramble has been discouraged because of its impact on surface transit, but now that the Eglinton Crosstown is operating that concern has been removed.
A pedestrian scramble at Yonge and Eglinton should follow the Toronto model where pedestrians can cross during the regular as well as scramble phases.
