Working for Safe Sidewalks on Avenue Road between Bloor St. & St. Clair Ave.
Kartik Saini, 20, died after being struck and dragged by a pickup at St. Clair Avenue and Yonge Street on Wednesday afternoon.
Parveen Saini says his family has “lost everything” after his 20-year-old nephew Kartik Saini, an international student from India, was struck and killed by a pickup truck driver making an apparent illegal right turn on Wednesday in Toronto.
Albert Koehl, Avenue Road Safety Coalition, is calling for a redesign of Avenue Road to improve safety.
City News reporter Melissa Nakhavoly speaks to the investments some would like the city to make to prevent deadly incidents from occurring.
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 the stretch of Avenue between Bloor Avenue West and St. Clair Avenue West to be reduced from six lanes of traffic down to four, which would allow for sidewalks to be widened 240 per cent from their current width and accommodate 500 new trees.
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 the street from an urban speedway cutting through their neighbourhood into a tree-lined pedestrian-friendly boulevard.
According to a traffic study that was conducted before the pandemic, the 2.1-kilometre stretch of Avenue Road carries 30,000 vehicles per day, and 85 per cent of drivers exceed the 50 km/h speed limit. Compounding the problem is that the sidewalks are less than two metres wide.
The only stretch of Avenue Road that hasn’t been altered is the part the Avenue Road Safety Coalition is representing.
NowToronto.com: Avenue Road says a lot about our city, even if it’s no longer what we want to hear. The hilly, six-lane stretch between St. Clair West and Bloor literally …
By all accounts Toronto’s 50 photo-radar cameras are doing their job — issuing 22,000 tickets in just one month this summer. But the city says there are currently no plans to acquire more, and that has road safety advocates wondering why…
“Cars go fast, governments go slow,” said Albert Koehl, coordinator with the Avenue Road Safety Coalition. He points out that 50 cameras for the entire city is just one camera for approximately every 100 kilometres of road.
Interview with Albert Koehl, a Co-organizer, Avenue Road Safety Coalition Safety Awareness Day. “A lot of local residents on foot simply avoid Avenue Road because they fear for their safety, …
CBC.ca: A community group is calling on the city to make a stretch of Avenue Road immediately safer for pedestrians. The Avenue Road Safety Coalition, made up of residents’ associations …
Bayview-News.com: Residents will demonstrate Tuesday morning to urge slower speeds and wider sidewalks for the high-speed stretch of Avenue Road between St. Clair Ave. and Bloor Street. It sees some …
AMICA Senior Lifestyles’ Chief Executive Officer, Doug MacLatchy writes to Mayor John Tory and Toronto City Council
SpacingTORONTO: The car wins on Avenue Road. It always does. The pattern of valuing the convenience of drivers over everything else has been fixed since 1959, when the city chopped …