About Wayclear

Wayclear shows what’s disrupting travel across Toronto right now — road work, closures, transit alerts and Bike Share availability — in plain language, updated every 10 minutes. No accounts, no tracking, no database: just a fresh snapshot of what’s happening.

How the scoring works

• We group road restrictions that overlap in space (within 200 m) and time into “trouble spots.”
• Each spot is scored 0–100: 45% how many restrictions pile up + 25% how big the road is + 20% the stated impact + 10% how long it lasts; ×1.15 when a special event is involved.
• Plain-language guide: 80+ avoid if you can, 60+ expect delays, 40+ some disruption, below that minor.

Where the data comes from

• Roads & events — City of Toronto Road Restrictions v3 feed, every ~10 min. Licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Special-event closures (incl. FIFA fan zones) come from this same feed’s specialEvent flag.
• TTC alerts — TTC live service-alerts feed, every ~10 min. © Toronto Transit Commission.
• Bike Share — Bike Share Toronto GBFS feeds (public, real-time): station_status for live counts and station_information for station locations, which we point-in-polygon into neighbourhoods for the per-neighbourhood bike map.

Feeds we evaluated and left out for now: Metrolinx GO/UP Express alerts (needs an API key we don’t have), the City’s standalone Festivals & Events feed (no live data endpoint / licence), and the City’s TTC Subway Shapefiles (a 2018 file that still maps the closed Line 3 and predates the now-running Lines 5 & 6, so we show the TTC tab as a live per-line status board instead of an out-of-date map). If a feed goes down, its line in the footer shows “unavailable” and we keep serving the last good data rather than guess.

Raw computed snapshot: /api/snapshot.json.

Who builds this

Northernaut AI builds civic data tools like this for cities and agencies. If your city wants one, talk to us.