<![CDATA[Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect.]]>Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. People saying this are telling us they don't care about data.

Let's compare 30min driving and 60min transit coverage!

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Later I'll try the orange blob for YYZ and see how it compares on the same site, just wanted to share in case you want to check it out.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116488229461266485https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116488229461266485Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:28:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:15:58 GMT]]>@c_9
The folks who live in east Toronto - Scarborough - Pickering - Ajax - Oshawa say otherwise.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/herroyalmelness/statuses/116482753095900631https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/herroyalmelness/statuses/116482753095900631Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:15:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:39:56 GMT]]>@c_9 Not foolish, selfish lies.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/xmacdonald/statuses/116481667633872273https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/xmacdonald/statuses/116481667633872273Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:39:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:49:40 GMT]]>@JustinDerrick I found some tools but they require desktop, not tablet, so I’ll have to try tomorrow.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116479582544566097https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116479582544566097Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:49:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:49:33 GMT]]>@c_9 Yeah, a I’ll admit the red area doesn’t cover ALL of Toronto proper - but if you can get that tool to calculate area, you might be able to approximate population density numbers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/JustinDerrick/statuses/116479582110101975https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/JustinDerrick/statuses/116479582110101975Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:49:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:45:43 GMT]]>@JustinDerrick I’m not so sure. Agree that area is not same as population, and I’ll edit my alt text to make that more clear. But my estimate is the driving red area covers only 2m of the 3m in Toronto. Whereas the orange covers a huge portion of Mississauga and Brampton, plus more of Toronto. I think calling that red area 4m, out of the GTA's 7m, is fair. But now I’m curious and will hunt for better data.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116479567027479921https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116479567027479921Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:45:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:36:40 GMT]]>@c_9 The only snag with your claim is that there’s way more people inside that red zone than in the orange zone - the population density in the city is some of the highest in North America - nearly 4500 people per square km.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/JustinDerrick/statuses/116479531442737083https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/JustinDerrick/statuses/116479531442737083Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:36:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:51:43 GMT]]>@hannorein @c_9 EXACTLY

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/MichaelPorter/statuses/116479354682537951https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/MichaelPorter/statuses/116479354682537951Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:51:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:51:16 GMT]]>@c_9 Even for downtowners, the UP Express has negated that claim.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/cjmoorehead/statuses/116479352916474994https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/cjmoorehead/statuses/116479352916474994Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:51:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Claims that Toronto's downtown island airport is more accessible to more people than Pearson are foolish and incorrect. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:35:48 GMT]]>@c_9 Well, it's more accessible from Queen's Park...

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