Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/lo...-1.6056238

This appears to be a murder and hate crime. While I believe you that the road is horrible for pedestrian safety, I think the level of infrastructure required to protect against attempts to murder is very different from general safety, and road design isn't the causal factor here.

Not too surprised, coming from London. I am a 'white' guy, with some indigenous heritage, not much. Anywho, I've been to London several times, and have been yelled out "Get the f*** out of our city, you f***** Jew." No one outside of London has mistaken me for being Jewish, not that I would have a problem with that. But this has happened to me 3 times while in London with threats. That city has some serious issues. Traffic is just another one of the issues.

I've not personally experienced it, but I have heard from friends I grew up with London definitely has racism problems. But I don't necessarily think they're any bigger than we have here, I mean, we are all painfully aware of the hate posters posted in Wilmot, you know the ones that WRPS and the Crown Attorney feel are entirely acceptable under Canadian law, the ones that are clearly promoting a hate group...don't really understand that but regardless, leaving that aside, a friend of mine who is Asian routinely have slurs shouted at them on the way to Kitchener market. Another friend had an egg thrown at him. Racism is present in our community. We've got to address it.