According to 2016 long-form census data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada, it took GTA residents an average of 1 minute and 12 seconds longer to get to work last year than it did in 2011. It’s not your imagination: commute times in the Greater Toronto Area are getting worse. GTA residents take significantly longer to get to work than the national average, which was 26 minutes and 12 seconds last year. Despite the longer commute times Jason Gilmore, chief of labour statistics at Statistics Canada, said there has been a small shift towards more people living closer to where they work. In the GTA, 59.3 per cent of public transit users experienced commute times of 45 minutes or more.

Source: thestar November 29, 2017 14:16 UTC