LRT LIFE: WHERE TO BUY NOW

Rapid transit will undoubtedly change the city, and perhaps no one will feel this more than those living near the stations. Laura Byrne Paquet looks at the neighbourhoods that have the most to gain (and lose) when Confederation Line opens in 2018

A note about the numbers: Walk Score is a patented measure of the walkability of a location. For each address, Walk Score analyzes hundreds of walking routes to nearby amenities and awards points based on the distance to amenities. Transit Score is a patented measure of how well a location is served by public transit, which uses existing transit lines to calculate the relative usefulness of nearby routes; while the current scores do not take into account future transit links, in the case of Confederation Line, many stations will be located on existing lines.

Survey says refers to demographic information related to the “microhood” in which that listing is located and is based on data for 200 to 400 households, which is supplied by Statistics Canada.