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Back to school safety

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.

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Yonge St. at Woodlawn

ActiveTO Midtown Complete Street Pilot Monitoring Report

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.

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Traffic calming

Toronto drivers hit 3 pedestrians in 3 hours

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 …

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Avenue Road re-imagined Brown & Storey Architects

Fixing Sam’s Road: the urban design disaster of Avenue Road

Avenue Road is the enduring legacy of Sam Cass. Very enduring.

Cass was the traffic engineer hired by the new Metro Toronto government created in 1954 to federate the city of Toronto and 12 other local municipalities. His task was to create a network of roads that would bring people efficiently into the downtown core and take them back to their suburban homes at night. That was the post-war vision of the city.

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Yonge Street bike lane pilot data results

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 …

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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 …

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