The Radical Shift in Employment

Watch Toronto grow from a small city in 1900 to a world class regional economy in this short 8-minute video. It animates the remarkable change in highways, transit and commercial real estate development over the last 100 years.

By 2020, there is over 80 million square feet of office space in the 905, approximately the same amount of office space as there is in all of Greater Montreal.

Planners in the 60’s and 70’s could not have foretold this nor were adequate investments in roads or transit at that time.

New Transit and road management must considered this shift when making new mobility policy change.