Admiral Beez
Superstar
The system should be designed that the mistakes and oversights of pedestrians and cyclists shouldn’t be fatal. Unless someone is suicidal, a pedestrian or cyclist has entered the road space with the intent to either use or cross that space. Curb jumping vehicles aside, this is the genesis of all these pedestrian and cyclist deaths. We need to stop forcing the pedestrians and cyclists to meet the practices and rules of the car driver. Instead, find out what the pedestrians or cyclists were doing when they were struck by the cars and make whatever and wherever they were doing possible and safe. Did a pedestrian enter a busy road to get to the other side and get run over by a car? If this is more than a one-off, slow the speed limit (not only through signage, but through road design) and install a traffic/crossing signal. Did a teenaged cyclist get hit today trying to cross Birchmount? IDK, but if yes, make the roads safer for absentminded, distracted teen cyclists by putting more limits on the cars, not the cyclists. Vision Zero, IMO should not be about curtailing pedestrians or cyclists within the roadspace, but instead should be about forcing the car driver to accommodate the often unpredictable, seemingly incomprehensive and downright reckless behaviour of pedestrians and cyclists. Someone on their iPhone who steps into Queen East traffic without looking should be honked at, not rundown. We need to change the HTA so that no matter who had ROW, if a car hits a cyclist or pedestrian, it's full liability, criminal charges and game over for the driver. I'm a pedestrian, cyclist, motorcyclist and car driver and the first two need to always come first.... I can manage the second two myself.These events are tragedies. I never said otherwise. My point being, let’s hear what happened before we villainize any one or anything.
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