Today I have been doing some research on different techniques used to record pedestrian movement in the city.  Often the use of time lapse video is employed and this is a nice example taken on one of Toronto’s “scrambler intersections”, which allow for diagonal crossings.

And by the way, Matthew Blackett at spacingtoronto who helped produce the video points out:

It should be noted that there was a looming rain storm when we shot this, thus the human traffic is a little light.

A little light, heh?  Maybe they should abandon all of this sidewalk nonsense and invest in a network of weather-proof pedestrian tunnels.  Toronto obviously could learn a thing or two about good urbanism from Oklahoma City…jk