Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

I considered moving to London a couple of years ago because of my mother (100 years old) and my brother living there and the rents being a bit cheaper, but I decided that I hated the place because the traffic is so much worse than KW.

Yeah, it's always funny when people here complain about the traffic. These folks usually dismiss Toronto as "well they're just a big city"...and I say...no, London...a smaller city than us has MUCH worse traffic.

But perspective has never been a human strength.

Sadly, we have another collision this morning, a two year old toddler was run over on Victoria St. at Paulander. I believe going to the daycare that I am supposed to tour on Wednesday. I'm just horrified. This section of road is notoriously dangerous, I can think of a half dozen serious or fatal collisions on this section.

Of course, the region plans to reconstruct it, but like most regional plans, the priority is on vehicle throughput. There will be bike lanes squeezed in because that's the bike plan, but in no way will vehicle speed be compromised for safety.