Just to showcase how screwed up the driveway alignments are on Leslie at Nymark where today's hit and run happened:
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Green = right-turn movements;
Red = left-turn movements;
Yellow = desire path/accident site
I live here.
I constantly see people jaywalk here.
@nfitz is correct that 'jaywalking' here, that is to say, crossing the road between regulated points to do so is perfectly legal and understandable.
However, I disagree with adding another traffic light only 150m from Nymark. I don't think that's the correct solution. Indeed, depending on where you put it, the relationship of that point to all the various other road accesses could make matters worse.
@afransen is on point, though, if you think about block density in the older city vs out here, or all the bungalows w/the driveways on Royal York or Victoria Park, the number of accesses is only slightly high, its the manner and location of them, and the road design interacting in a bad way that is a real issue here.
I can map out of a series of changes, but I'm not sure what means the City has to impose access closures outside of the redevelopment process ( I've asked though, because you've got me curious). The City could 'incent' some changes as an alternative.
Taking through lanes out is not going to happen here, but access changes aside, the middle turning lane needs to be more interrupted, by landscaping or a barrier, such as to make it clear where turning movements are permitted and desirable and to make some no longer possible.
Some quick thoughts below. Again, I'm not sure we can get the private accesses closed, but this is how I might suggest some safety improvements here at first blush. This is quick and dirty so apologies if I've missed something obvious.
Red is a closed vehicle access
Orange is a barrier/landscape feature forcing the gas station to be right-in, right-out only.
Green Lines represent permitted turning movements.
Green Circle is a pedestrian refuge Island.
The developments here are not well done from a road access/pedestrian safety point of view, but terminating all access to existing private property is definitely not feasible.
My suggestion retains one or more access points to all sites. I chose to remove the second, smaller access to the medical centre, because it looks operationally feasible (the lot could handle all the exists at the north end). The alternative would be a consolidated driveway with the town homes to the south, given that both are private property and lack a common owner, that struck me as harder to make work. There would also be desires on both sides to prevent intrusion of traffic from the other.
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Were private owners uncooperative, and there no other alternative, I would suggest obstructing all turn movements across Leslie at non-regulated intersections (all accesses become Right-in, Right-Out). This would be wildly unpopular, which I hope would encourage cooperation.
The object is to make traffic/turning movements more predictable and visible. And also to create a safe place for pedestrians to stand mid-crossing.
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