No worries, people have been driving on those streetcar tracks forever and occasionally causing accidents doing it. Nothing will change.
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Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan
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salsa
Senior Member
College Dundas Intersection Improvements
The City is planning to replace TTC streetcar tracks and reconstruct local roads at the intersection of College Street and Dundas Street West. This planned work presents an opportunity for additional safety improvements and enhancement of public space in the project area. Proposed changes include new traffic signals at the intersection of College St. and Dundas St. West, improved pedestrian and bicycle crossings, closure of a segment of St. Helens Ave. at College St., and installation of features to enhance the closed segment of the road.
More info: https://www.toronto.ca/community-pe...cts/college-dundas-intersection-improvements/
The City is planning to replace TTC streetcar tracks and reconstruct local roads at the intersection of College Street and Dundas Street West. This planned work presents an opportunity for additional safety improvements and enhancement of public space in the project area. Proposed changes include new traffic signals at the intersection of College St. and Dundas St. West, improved pedestrian and bicycle crossings, closure of a segment of St. Helens Ave. at College St., and installation of features to enhance the closed segment of the road.
More info: https://www.toronto.ca/community-pe...cts/college-dundas-intersection-improvements/
facepalming_brooklynite
Active Member
Instead of distributing reflective armbands, maybe the city should consider requiring pedestrians to wear a reflective yellow star on their clothing
W. K. Lis
Superstar
"“The Way Forward,” was developed by a group of corporate heavyweights working under the joint leadership of Pringle and Saunders. It was the culmination of a process began in 2010–2011 when then- chief Bill Blair was directed by the TPSB to conduct a comprehensive organizational review to find savings in policing costs. In a discussion paper for the board’s consideration, I, as chair, spoke about developing a new model of policing consistent with contemporary needs and realities."
2010-2011 was during the reign of Rob Ford as Mayor (December 1, 2010 – November 30, 2014). Money was more important than safety for him and his followers, even today.
BurlOak
Senior Member
Driver charged after being caught on camera slamming into cyclist in Markham
Charge was careless driving, which seems about right - but possibly arguable. I suspect they should add illegal right turn.
Is there an argument to be made that driver looked at bicyclist and since they didn't dismount, they obviously were not crossing at that time?
Charge was careless driving, which seems about right - but possibly arguable. I suspect they should add illegal right turn.
Is there an argument to be made that driver looked at bicyclist and since they didn't dismount, they obviously were not crossing at that time?
TrickyRicky
Senior Member
^In that video a) what the heck is that driver doing b) what the heck is that cyclist doing. Terrible examples of both
ShonTron
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Cynthia Lai, that tool of a local councillor, was behind this. She also blocked three speed limit reductions in her ward.
DSC
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and was over-ruled by Council last month.
W. K. Lis
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salsa
Senior Member
tiffer24
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Toronto police address road safety crisis by teaching pedestrians to die more discreetly.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2019/1...-teaching-pedestrians-to-die-more-discreetly/
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2019/1...-teaching-pedestrians-to-die-more-discreetly/
WislaHD
Superstar
I honestly am not sure which one is really The Beaverton.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Don't forget the chief magistrate who put them there. He couldn't have chosen a better bunch of sycophants.
AoD
tiffer24
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ShonTron
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Ironically, the mall where Cynthia Lai and the police were handing out armbands to seniors wast hit by motorists twice in the last two years:
seanmarshall.ca
Zero vision in suburban Toronto
Though the city of Toronto has made some progress towards safer streets recently, the lack of police enforcement of traffic laws, the reluctance to spend serious money on road redesign, and the att…
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