For a day or so, in the wake of Toronto’s Yonge Street pedestrian massacre, it looked like no such opportunity would present itself. Instead of the all-too-familiar suggestions of excess police violence or racial bias, the Toronto Police Service, thanks in part to Const. Vision Zero schemes include reducing traffic lanes, increasing on-street parking that separates bike lanes with parked cars, which in turn serve as a barrier to protect bikers and pedestrians. Ironically, a major plan for a reconstruction of the Yonge/Finch strip following some of the Vision Zero theory would not have been effective in stopping Monday’s attack. At the end of the CBC Radio show, after Keesmaat and Weisz had flipped the Yonge Street tragedy in their favour, Toronto risk consultant Alan Bell had a chance to offer another view.

Source: National Post April 27, 2018 19:41 UTC