Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan

[Northern Light]

IMO, we need to have more suicide or safety barriers on more of our bridges.

Passenger dies after vehicle on DVP struck by person falling from bridge

Officers were called to the DVP at Leaside Bridge at 11:59 p.m. for the fatal incident.

www.thestar.com

Paywall free: https://archive.is/VCkGG

It does seem counterintuitive to have a barrier on the Prince Edward Viaduct, but almost no where else. My friend's son killed himself from the Leaside bridge, like in the article above, for example. Thankfully in that case he didn't kill anyone else.

Despite what the Admiral thinks, I actually like him, most days.......... LOL

Which is why I'm sharing something.......

There's a walk-in motion coming to Infrastructure and Environment today:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ie/bgrd/backgroundfile-247251.pdf

It comes via Councillor James Pasternak:

As noted above, its not the first request.....so whether this one will have more traction, assuming Ctte adopts it, we shall see.

I expect committee will adopt this, but it may be a year or more to see the report, and then several more for implementation.

If the Admiral, or anyone who supports this wants to see this item advanced, an extremely quick note to the Committee Chair (like now) might suggest a friendly amendment to add a report back date (ie by July '25) and a still non-specific statement like 'with a view to implementing such barriers as soon as practical" (to encourage a placeholder in the 2025 budget submission.

 

[Northern Light]

Someone was paying attention: ^^^^

The above was adopted, with an amendment:

 

[elcorrerador]

https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/wo...iver-of-vehicle-in-downtown-toronto-1.6969377

Tragic. Pedestrian was on the crossover and hit by a vehicle.

 

[picard102]

Do they mean the crosswalk?

 

[crs1026]

Do they mean the crosswalk?

Terminology. What many people call a "crosswalk" is actually a "crossover". Queen and Sackville has a crossover (crossing Queen) and two crosswalks (crossing Sackville).
The police statement appears to refer to a crossover and I trust the police used that word in its proper meaning, so the victim probably was crossing Queen.

- Paul

 

[lenaitch]

Do they mean the crosswalk?

It depends. Per the HTA (paraphrased) a "pedestrian crossover" is a part of a road distinctly marked (in accordance with the Regulations) as a pedestrian crossing area. A "pedestrian crosswalk" is an area marked for pedestrian crossing at an intersection OR any other area identified by signs or markings.

It's a clumsy definition. Typically, a 'crossover' is mid-block (or at a non-signalled intersection) with the old overhead sign and lights or new signs and LED sidelights, and a crosswalk is part of an intersection's markings, signs and controls. We've come to refer a 'crossover' as a 'crosswalk'.