City’s road safety efforts need more action, not more plans
A mayoral candidate’s safer streets proposal isn’t fresh, it could work. All it needs is the city and councils support.
A mayoral candidate’s safer streets proposal isn’t fresh, it could work. All it needs is the city and councils support.
A month after the Woodbine Avenue bike lanes were opened in East York, locals still seem divided on whether to keep or get rid of them, with duelling petitions fighting it out online.
Meredith Johnson is cycling with a friend down Midland Avenue. They both stop to make a right turn, and in unison they lift their left arms out and up to signal before they make the turn.
“I first learned about signalling from a childhood friend’s parents who used to bring me along on their family bike rides,” she said.
Johnson, 26, is a Torontonian who cycles everywhere. She commutes via bike year round, so she’s quite used to signalling.