Toronto’s Traffic Crisis Is Keeping Workers Out of the Office, Poll Says

  • Survey finds 64% are reluctant to commute due to traffic woes
  • Office vacancies still hurting the economy of city’s downtown
Evening traffic in the financial district in Toronto. Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg

Traffic is so bad in Canada’s financial capital that a majority of Toronto residents are prepared to endure around-the-clock construction to improve the situation sooner, according to new polling data.

A survey commissioned by the Toronto Region Board of Trade found that 64% of residents are reluctant to travel to work because of traffic congestion, a dismal statistic that’s harming efforts by banks and other large employers to get workers to come to the office more often.