The Avenue Road Safety Coalition (ARSC) represents the concerns of the residents and visitors to Avenue Road who walk and cycle between Bloor Street and St. Clair Avenue. We embody the City’s Planning Objective to “create the right balance of space for pedestrians, cyclists, transit and vehicles.”
This 2.1-kilometre stretch of Avenue Road between St. Clair Avenue and Bloor Street West is a six-lane, high-speed road that is unsafe and hostile to pedestrians and cyclists. The sidewalks are substandard and dangerously narrow, especially when considering the speeding cars and trucks.
News
Layton doesn’t want to wait until someone dies to fix Avenue Road
“Avenue Road is a very hostile roadway,” said Arlene Desjardin, the co-chair of the Avenue Road Safety Coalition (ARSC), a group advocating for better safety in the area. “The cars…
Gil Penalosa joins Toronto mayoral race
Penalosa, 65, says he’s running in part because no high-profile left-wing candidate has emerged, and the problems Toronto is facing around issues like housing and climate change are so urgent…
Reinventing Avenue Road
2021 was another busy one for the Avenue Road Safety Coalition. With the support of our members and the help of Councillor Matlow and Councillor Layton our goal for a…
Wider Sidewalks Now Video
In 2020, the Avenue Road Safety Coalition made a video to illustrate the safety issues posed by the narrow sidewalks in the 6-lane section of Avenue Rd. between Bloor Street…
Media
Avenue Road needs wider sidewalks and lower speeds
StCatharineStandard.ca: “Avenue Road, a six-lane, high-speed motorway running through the heart of Toronto, no longer fits with contemporary ideas about road safety or with the schools, parks, residential towers and…
Woman killed at crosswalk – Mayor admits city has ‘a long way to go’ for Vision Zero goal
thestar.com : “Toronto saw its fourth pedestrian death of the year Friday morning. The police say an 80-year-old woman was killed by a female driver, also 80, while she was…
Toronto councillors vote to examine garbage truck speeding after CTV News investigation
Toronto – CTVnews.ca: A Toronto city committee has voted to demand more information about how fast city vehicles are going and whether they’re paying their traffic fines after a CTV…