Making Avenue Road humane and efficient
thestar.com: Avenue Road is currently “an urban speedway cutting through the neighbourhood.” It is basically a six-lane highway, and the design encourages fast traffic, speeding. The sidewalk is too narrow, …
Barb Moore
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 …
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 …
Toronto wants more speed cameras, but advocates say it’s not enough to curb traffic deaths
CBC.ca: Toronto is looking to roll out 25 new photo radar cameras around the city to help curb the number of fatalities and serious injuries, but critics say much more …
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2021
Today was World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. As per the tradition for the past several years, Friends and Families for Safe Streets organized a memorial gathering and …
Toronto’s measures to prevent pedestrian deaths have fallen short
Globe and Mail “Pedestrian fatalities are tragedies. Lives are lost and other lives – including those of the drivers – are destroyed.” Read more at theglobeandmail.com
The Liberation of Paris from Cars is Working
SLATE.com: Over the past six years, Paris has done more than almost any city in the world to take space back from cars. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has opened linear parks …
New linear park for Avenue road
trnto.com: A group of concerned citizens and an architecture firm are proposing to create a new linear park along Avenue Road to improve walkability and safety. The proposal calls for …
Cyclist death renews calls for improved road safety
Toronto.CityNews.ca: Albert Koehl, Avenue Road Safety Coalition, is calling for a redesign of Avenue Road to improve safety. Melissa Nakhavoly speaks to the investments some would like the city to …
Fixing Sam’s Road
Spacing.ca: Council will need to decide if Sam Cass and Fred Gardiner’s 1950s vision should rule the Toronto of today or if it’s time to heed the call of residents …
High-speed Avenue Road to become a linear park
Toronto Urbanized: A major Toronto road that’s prone to speeding cars is in need of a transformation that would widen sidewalks, improve safety, and create a linear park, The Avenue …
Too fast, too furious? Local residents want the city to slow speeding traffic on Avenue Road by turning part of it into a park
thestar.com: After years of pushing the city to make Avenue Road safer and getting few results, a group of local residents have unveiled their own designs they say would transform …