Walk Toronto presented written comments and deputed in person regarding the Vision Zero 2.0 traffic safety plan presented by City of Toronto Transportation Services at the Infrastructure and Environment Committee on June 27, 2019.
Overall, Walk Toronto was supportive of the plan, which is much more substantial than the previous plan presented by the City in 2016, but noted that it still fell short of a systematic and comprehensive Vision Zero strategy.
Several of Walk Toronto’s allies in the #BuildTheVision coalition also deputed in the same vein, including The Centre for Active Transportation, 8-80 Cities, Friends and Families for Safe Streets, and Cycle Toronto.
Walk Toronto proposed one amendment — that the City adopt a policy of having a controlled crossing at all TTC stops — and a modified version of this amendment was presented by Councillor Mike Layton and adopted by the committee. The amendment reads as follows:
City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to review the opportunity for a policy that all TTC stops be provided with a controlled crossing in the immediate vicinity working in consultation with the TTC to ensure that this policy does not reduce the number of TTC stops, and report to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee in third quarter of 2019.
The written comments were prepared by Daniella Levy-Pinto and the deputation was made by Dylan Reid.
