By Star reporter Ben Spurr’s estimate, 46 per cent of Toronto’s record-high number of pedestrian deaths in 2018 happened in Scarborough. Mayor John Tory’s ideas about rebooting the Vision Zero initiative shows some promising signs, Edward Keenan writes. ( Rene Johnston / Toronto Star )The reason is also not much of a mystery, as Mayor John Tory outlined in a speech Wednesday unveiling a reboot and update of his Vision Zero traffic safety plan. And the traffic on those roads is more likely to be moving faster than anywhere else in the city. But as restarts go, what the mayor calls Vision Zero 2.0 is encouraging.

Source: thestar March 21, 2019 20:15 UTC