Working for Safe Sidewalks on Avenue Road between Bloor St. & St. Clair Ave.
Mary Helen Spence 
Disaster barely averted at Avenue Rd. & Cottingham
A Toronto cyclist is still shaken after narrowly escaping serious injury in a collision with a bus this past summer, and demands changes to the car-centric road conditions in neighbourhoods north of the core.
My heart goes out to the reporter on this story; spending four hours in a car in Toronto’s hellish rush hour is not for the faint of heart. She cites several causes of our ever-worsening traffic woes, including her observations that “pandemic-era boons to city life, like CaféTO and more protected bike lanes, have reduced the amount of space for drivers.”
It’s Back to School time and the Avenue Road Safety Coalition is sharing “Back to School” Safety Tips to ensure that everyone has a safe school year.
As the summer ends and the new school year starts, the traffic on our roads gets back to normal levels. People will be walking, cycling and driving to school. The Avenue Road Safety Coalition would like to share the following “Back to School” Safety Tips and how to travel and share our roads safely with all road users.
The City of Toronto recently published the results of their report analyzing the data they have collected to help evaluate the Midtown Complete Street Pilot. There has been NO increased traffic Avenue Road as a result of the Yonge Street Pilot.
The report summarizes Vehicle travel time data and Vehicle, Bicycle and Pedestrian counts from May 2021 to June 2022 in an easy to read charts and pictographs.
On CNN’s GPS (Global Public Square) Fareed Zakaria asks Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City’s former transportation commissioner, whether it’s possible to take cars out of cities.
On Wednesday, August 10, 2022, three collisions involving pedestrians all occurred in Toronto in less than three hours, in broad daylight. “More must be done now to make Toronto’s roads …
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 crossing the crosswalk at College and Bay Street late Friday morning.
The city of Amsterdam is known for many things, one of which is its vibrant biking culture. In general, the Dutch are known to be cycling people in their everyday …
In the memory of Miguel Joshua Escanan who was tragically killed on Avenue Road at Bloor Street on August 18, 2021, The Avenue Road Safety Coalition (ARSC) honours his memory. …
Ontario safety advocates say they have research that suggests large SUVs and pickup trucks cause more pedestrian and cycling deaths than other vehicles, and they’re calling on the province’s chief coroner to investigate …
Newly released data by the City of Toronto on a pilot project thatbrought bike lanes and more patios to a midtown portion of YongeStreet shows an increase in cycling activity …
“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 …