Two months after a woman was killed after being hit by a cement truck, Midtown residents are calling for safer street design, increased traffic enforcement and a citywide ban on heavy trucks that don’t meet proposed safety standards. Some residents made impassioned pleas for traffic lights at the Erskine and Yonge intersection where Evangeline Lauroza, 54, was killed. Over the past several years, there have been a disproportionate number of pedestrian deaths involving heavy trucks. Nine of the 34 pedestrians killed on Toronto roads in 2019 died in collisions involving heavy trucks, according to the Star’s tally of traffic deaths. YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...“We can’t pretend this isn’t happening … We have never had so many construction trucks in the city before,” said Colle.

Source: thestar November 26, 2019 02:15 UTC