CONNECTING
01 / THE HIDDEN PRICE OF TRAFFIC

Traffic takes more
than your time.

A playable experiment in urban inefficiency. Watch reported Toronto road restrictions, then discover what a delay really costs — in energy, shared human-hours, and life you could have spent elsewhere.

BUILT FOR TORONTO
MADE TO QUESTION THE COST
RESTRICTION POINT RECORDS
—City of Toronto official feed
UNPLANNED REPORTS
—As marked in source
DATA CHECK
Connecting…Toronto local time
MAP COVERAGE
City of TorontoNot all of the Greater Toronto Area

◉ Toronto city radar

Reported road disruptions · verified city source

● DATA FEED
Map tiles unavailable. Reported events can still be browsed below.

Reported locations

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Map pins represent road restriction points, not measured traffic speed, congestion, crime, or danger. Up to 1,500 most recently modified source records are loaded; up to 450 pins and 70 list entries are drawn. A single permit may have several points, and updates may lag.
03 / THE TIME YOU NEVER GET BACK

What else could those hours become?

This is a time-budget thought experiment, not a claim that everyone could earn money instead.
Time lost per passenger2 hr
Total human-hours, all occupants4 hr
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💸 Traffic Jam Cost Lab

Your car. Your people. Your lost hours.

INTERACTIVE / CAD
Try this: 2 hours stuck in traffic. Add three passengers. Is fuel really the biggest loss?
01 · Pick your rideillustrative vehicle categories
Quick scenariostap to play
120 min
10 min4 hours
2 people
17
$30/hr
$0/hr$150/hr
L/h
$/L
COMBINED SCENARIO COST · VEHICLE + ALL OCCUPANTS
$125.94
Illustrative economic cost: extra energy paid + time value. Time is not a cash payment or guaranteed lost earnings.
Time $120.00Energy $5.94
Extra estimated cash · $5.94Combined / person · $62.97
Estimated tailpipe CO₂8.3 kg
04 / THE COMPOUND EFFECT

What if this happened every week?

A hypothetical year of 48 travel weeks. Change how often the same delay happens.

3× / week
Combined time value + energy$18,135
All-occupant human-hours576 hr
Method & limitations. Costs are user-adjustable scenarios, not measured congestion losses, wages, or financial advice. Extra delay is treated as idle-equivalent energy demand; stop-and-go driving, engine auto-stop, heat and weather can change the result. Preset rates and prices are illustrations, not live quotations or model-specific vehicle specs. CO₂ shows gas tailpipe emissions only (2.3 kg per litre); EV upstream grid emissions excluded. NRCan idling guidance · Toronto GIS source. No GPS, accounts, or personal routes required.
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