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Toronto Star: Speed limits on Toronto streets reduced starting today
September 14th, 2015
Robin Levinson King
Toronto Star
Slow down — starting today, speed limits on 387 kilometres of local city roads will be reduced to 30 km/hr.
The speed limit will be reduced from 40 km/hr to 30 km/hr on local roads within the Toronto and East York community council districts.
The change of pace was championed by Ward 22 councillor Josh Matlow and passed community council in June. A city report suggested it could help make streets safer, but also that changing the signs could cost $1.1 million.
“It’s the right thing to do,” Matlow said. Matlow said research makes it clear that reducing speed limits save lives, because if a pedestrian is hit by a car at a lower speed they are much more likely to survive.
CTV News: Speed limits to be reduced to 30 km/h on some Toronto streets
September 14, 2015
Kendra Mangione
CTV News
Speed limits will be reduced from 40 km/h to 30 on residential roads in East York and downtown Toronto, starting with Ward 22 this week.
Coun. Josh Matlow, the representative for Ward 22 St. Paul's, told reporters Monday that 40 km/h signs will be replaced by 30 km/h signs starting in his ward.
Ward 22 is bordered by Eglinton and Broadway Avenues in the north, Spadina Road to the west, Macpherson Avenue and Southvale Drive to the south and Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue to the east.
The new signs will then be rolled out across the rest of the affected areas over the next year. The changes will affect 387 kilometres of Toronto roads in 12 wards, and will cost the city approximately $1 million. Limits in York, North York, Etobicoke and Scarborough will not be affected.
The speed reduction was unanimously approved by the Toronto and East York Community Council in June, but was proposed more than a year ago by Matlow.
South Bayview Bulldog: Meeting hears of streetscape masterplan for Mt. Pleasant
September 2nd, 2015
The South Bayview Bulldog
A public meeting Wednesday night heard that the Mt. Pleasant Village BIA is intent on creating a “streetscape masterplan” for the business district from Davisville to Eglinton Aves. Three members of a private planning firm, PUBLIC WORK, spoke of their ideas so far and solicited the thoughts of merchants and residents at the auditorium in the Briton House building at 720 Mt. Pleasant. The planners, Adam Nicklin, Marc Ryan and Lauren Abrahams, took turns describing the natural attributes of the street and how they might be brought closer together and amplified to make the street even more attractive. As you will note below in the remarks of Ms. Abrahams, the width (or narrowness) of sidewalks and traffic lanes were recurring subjects. Mt. Pleasant is a four lane route (two north, two south) with additional flow permitted by rush hour no-parking rules. This is thanks to the 1948 planning vision to speed cars from downtown to the midtown neighborhoods of Lawrence Park and beyond.
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