Lawrence & Mt Pleasant

I went for one of my long mean­der­ing walks yes­ter­day. It was the per­fect day for walk: nice and cool, but not too much so. Any­way I decided to travel North up Mount Pleas­ant Rd. Lots of nice houses there and gen­er­ally a pleas­ant neigh­bour­hood. I even­tu­ally made it all the way up to Lawrence Ave. Now the inter­sec­tion of Lawrence Ave and Mt Pleas­ant Rd is an inter­est­ing one as it prob­a­bly has the most stop lights of any inter­sec­tion I have ever seen. Next time I’ll count them, but there’s eas­ily 10 of them, pos­si­bly more. It’s a weird inter­sec­tion since Mt Pleas­ant veers off to the East a bit. You can see what I mean on this map.

So the point of me men­tion­ing this is, er, this: years ago some­one told me that this inter­sec­tion is actu­ally in the Guin­ness Book of World Records for hav­ing the most stop lights (or some­thing to that effect). I tried search­ing the Guin­ness site and can’t find it men­tioned any­where and I’m just won­der­ing if this is true or not.

Can any­one actu­ally ver­ify this?