Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[dtkvictim]

1) Something needs to be done for crossing Victoria St from Garment St/100 Victoria condos. Every single time I go by there are multiple people timing darting across four lanes of traffic, and having done it myself I can be sure there is no way it goes on forever without someone getting hit. Because of limited gaps in traffic at certain times of day, you also often gets cars waiting to exit from Bramm/Garment/Michael/Oak trying to pull out at the same time pedestrians are trying to run across. It's even worse this time of year with the darkness.

You can argue that people should just cross at Joseph or Park, depending on the direction they are heading, but that clearly isn't happening right now. Anecdotally, I see many more people running across than using either of those crossings.

2) I'm pretty sure the Gaukel crossing over Charles St has been replaced with a beg button, and gives an otherwise permanent green to traffic on Charles St. I just watched it for 2.5 minutes and the light never cycled, while about 20 people (none of whom pressed the button) decided to wait for a few seconds each and then just cross since there was no traffic. Maybe someone who lives in Charlie West or uses this crossing often can confirm.

Meanwhile the Ontario St bicycles lights still aren't operational, meaning southbound bikes have no indication when they are allowed to go other than looking at the pedestrian light. Priorities.