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Toronto to deploy "traffic agents" to clear busy intersections

Up to 30 new city employees will be deployed to try and help ease traffic congestion this year, after a pilot program in 2016 and a promise from former mayor John Tory to do so in 2021. Mark McAllister provides details.

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