Glen Road Pedestrian Bridge (Morley Callaghan Bridge)

[Rascacielo]

A Member Motion at next week's Council meeting will see to enhance the budget of this project by just over 700k from S. 37 funding.

The intent is pay for safety and other enhancements next to the Glen Road entrance to Sherbourne Station:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/mm/bgrd/backgroundfile-249999.pdf

From the above:

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That entrance was where a foreign student on his way to school was fatally stabbed (or was it shot) by a stranger some 2 1/2 years ago (completely random). No doubt that incident prompted the safety enhancement.

 

[Northern Light]

That entrance was where a foreign student on his way to school was fatally stabbed (or was it shot) by a stranger some 2 1/2 years ago (completely random). No doubt that incident prompted the safety enhancement.

Looked it up, as I didn't recall the details either, it was Shot.

21-year-old student was on way to work when shot dead outside Toronto subway station

The man shot and killed at an entrance to a Toronto subway station on Thursday evening was a 21-year-old student from India who was on his way to work, family members say.

toronto.ctvnews.ca

Took place at 5pm in the month of April, sunset at that time of year is ~7:50pm. So I don't imagine extra lighting would play much of a role in prevention. Perhaps the cameras would have made a difference.... I'm all for improving the space, but I do think we sometimes oversell the value of certain measures.

 

[Rascacielo]

Looked it up, as I didn't recall the details either, it was Shot.

21-year-old student was on way to work when shot dead outside Toronto subway station

The man shot and killed at an entrance to a Toronto subway station on Thursday evening was a 21-year-old student from India who was on his way to work, family members say.

toronto.ctvnews.ca

Took place at 5pm in the month of April, sunset at that time of year is ~7:50pm. So I don't imagine extra lighting would play much of a role in prevention. Perhaps the cameras would have made a difference.... I'm all for improving the space, but I do think we sometimes oversell the value of certain measures.

Yes, now I remember. On the way to work, not school. Agreed that no extra lighting could’ve prevented that, but I suppose it would give a sense of security to people using that entrance.