Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan

[TossYourJacket]

Same as any other measure that lacks wide spread consensus beyond self ascribe progressives.

Damn progressives, wanting for pedestrians not to be killed at random. How absurd!

 

[11th]

The collision in question is near the 401 intersection. Motor vehicles come off the highway and, in theory, should slow down to the posted speed limit. Most however, just coast down from highway speed, and are still above the speed limit of the arterial roads.

Guardrails should be installed separating the sidewalks from the roadway near most such intersections, until a point where the drivers have decelerated down to the safer slower speeds. In theory, of course.

The highway off-ramp doesn't feed directly onto that section of Progress. Vehicles would have to (slow down and) make two turns to get there.

Would a tall-wall concrete barrier be more effective at stopping vehicles?

 

[ShonTron]

So, how’s Vision Zero coming along in our ever so progressive city?

Don't ask Don Peat, you horrible person.

 

[Northern Light]

As per report coming to the next TEYCC, proposed changes to improve pedestrian/transit-user safety on Howard Park @ Dundas.

The proposal will remove the NB curb lane, replacing it with a new transit platform so that streetcar passengers will have direct access to/from the vehicle w/o crossing a live lane of traffic.

As part of said change, NB left-hand turns will now be prohibited.

Report here:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2020/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-141072.pdf

Diagram here:

 

[picard102]

They should dead end Lynd while they're at it.

 

[salsa]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1210911042433376256

 

[salsa]

From CP24:

Two pedestrians struck and killed in Scarborough

Two pedestrians have died in hospital after being struck by a vehicle in Scarborough on Sunday night.

www.cp24.com

Thoughts are prayers continues.

AoD

https://twitter.com/x/status/1210578637508005888

 

[tiffer24]

A woman in her thirties is in serious condition after she was struck by a car at the intersection of Gerrard and Bay streets and was "pinned" to a building, Toronto Police say.

Police received the call at 3:15 p.m for a two-vehicle crash. One car was forced off the roadway and struck the pedestrian, police say.

The woman suffered serious injuries and was transported to a trauma centre, according to Toronto paramedics.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/woman-serious-condition-pinned-building-car-crash-1.5409961

 

[W. K. Lis]

A woman in her thirties is in serious condition after she was struck by a car at the intersection of Gerrard and Bay streets and was "pinned" to a building, Toronto Police say.

Police received the call at 3:15 p.m for a two-vehicle crash. One car was forced off the roadway and struck the pedestrian, police say.

The woman suffered serious injuries and was transported to a trauma centre, according to Toronto paramedics.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/woman-serious-condition-pinned-building-car-crash-1.5409961

St. Michael's Hospital would be the closest trauma centre. The others in the Toronto area are Sunnybrook Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children. Click on this link for others in Ontario.

 

[CityStay]

More whackings.
Imagine how many there would be without Zero Vision.

Man in serious condition after being struck by vehicle in Etobicoke

A male pedestrian is in serious condition after being struck by a vehicle in Etobicoke on Saturday afternoon.

www.cp24.com

Man in his 60s seriously hurt in apparent hit-and-run in Corktown

A man in his 60s is in serious condition in hospital after an apparent hit-and-run in Toronto’s Corktown neighbourhood on Friday morning.

www.cp24.com

 

[WislaHD]

So many horrible pedestrian collisions and deaths over the past month, and really all year long.

Vision Zero is a joke. Nothing has been done. We are still as complacent as ever.

 

[ADRM]

So many horrible pedestrian collisions and deaths over the past month, and really all year long.

Vision Zero is a joke. Nothing has been done. We are still as complacent as ever.

And the most inexcusably horrible thing is that we know what solutions look like but refuse to implement them at scale.

This is undoubtedly Canada’s version of the US’ gun crime crisis.

 

[W. K. Lis]

And the most inexcusably horrible thing is that we know what solutions look like but refuse to implement them at scale.

This is undoubtedly Canada’s version of the US’ gun crime crisis.

Apparently, we have politicians (the ones who make up the policy) and bureaucrats (the ones who implement those policies) who refuse to look at pedestrians and cyclists are citizens of Toronto (and Ontario), and don't want to spend any money (the less the better for them) to help them.

 

[yrt+viva=1system]

Any one else notice that there’s now radio ads by the City of Toronto telling drivers to be more aware of pedestrians and the rising number of road deaths. Its sort of ironic that they would spend money on these ads when drivers themselves probably aren’t listening to the radio.

 

[salsa]

Any one else notice that there’s now radio ads by the City of Toronto telling drivers to be more aware of pedestrians and the rising number of road deaths. Its sort of ironic that they would spend money on these ads when drivers themselves probably aren’t listening to the radio.

It’s pretty consistent with the city’s overall approach to vision zero, which priorities spending on useless signs and education campaigns rather than improvements to road design.