Toronto to add more traffic agents in 2025 budget [Video]

Mayor Olivia Chow is vowing to bolster the compliment of traffic agents in the city to 100 this year in order to help ease gridlock at some of the city’s busiest intersections.

“These traffic agents will be moving traffic, getting Toronto moving, giving us time back with our families and loved ones,” Chow said at a downtown press conference. “They even keep us safe as they clear the roads for emergency crews.”

The city deployed 14 traffic agents back in 2023, adding more later that year to help ease major congestion that was occurring along King Street.

Back in February the city said there were 27 traffic agents on the job and that they planned to bring that number up to 40 by March. However there are around 25 in service at the moment.

The city also released datashowing that the agents had helped slash streetcar travel times along King Street by quickly dealing with situations where vehicles blocked intersections …