"We're looking for traffic calming. We're looking for safety for residents, for our neighbours, for our kids. We're feeling very dejected, very disappointed in our city's inaction. And honestly, it feels like there's no accountability. There's no transparency, there's no care and no urgency at all. And this is a street that has experienced 1,500 crashes in the last decade ... How can the city look at that data and still sit on their hands we just don't understand."
"We're looking for traffic calming. We're looking for safety for residents, for our neighbours, for our kids, and there are so many solutions to address that. It seems like the city hasn't tried anything and they're completely out of ideas."
Parkside Drive, bordering High Park, recorded 1,487 crashes between Bloor Street W. and Lake Shore Boulevard W. from August 2014 to August 2024, including five serious injuries and two deaths. Automated speed enforcement cameras on the street have been vandalized repeatedly, with one cut down on Sept. 7, the seventh incident in ten months. The city says the vendor, Redflex Traffic Systems (Canada) Ltd., must replace the camera within 30 days. Community advocates from Safe Parkside call for immediate traffic-calming measures, lane reductions and stronger safety interventions to protect residents and children.
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