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We can stop sacrificing pedestrians

Complete streets necessary to prevent pedestrian death toll

by REID D
Published in January 2022 - Page 33

In October 2021, a 17-year-old high school student was crossing at the intersection of Danforth Avenue and Birchmount Road in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough around lunch hour. A 40-year-old driver in a minivan turned left and struck her. She died shortly after.

In January 2018, a 21-year-old woman got off the bus at an isolated bus stop on Steeles Avenue, on Scarborough’s northern border. Her home was in a subdivision across the street, but

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