The City of Toronto has started streaming traffic data to navigation app Waze in what Mayor John Tory hopes will be the first of many such partnerships. Tory announced the agreement, which will also see Waze give the city information, Monday in the city’s traffic communications centre on Don Valley Rd. California-based Waze, bought by search engine giant Google in 2013, gives drivers map-based, turn-by-turn navigation and traffic information. Waze is getting city data including road and lane closures, areas of heavy and light traffic, traffic-inducing special events such as Sunday’s Santa Claus Parade, accident locations and construction sites. He called the pilot project a “total disaster” and claimed a restaurateur told him it was hurting his business.

Source: thestar November 21, 2017 00:22 UTC