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Half-Fast * Canada - Toronto, Ontario, ponders a plan
First. a Toronto Councillor wanted to ban all delivery trucks from the downtown core. Now, another wants to slash speeds limits by as much as 25%
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -11 Sept 2009: ... As if this city -- already the scene of some of the worst gridlock in North America -- needed another reason to make commercial drivers hate it... In light of a series of recent collisions involving pedestrians in Toronto, a prominent City Councillor named Bill Saundercook thinks that drivers are too speedy, so he is proposing that all of the city's posted speed limits get reduced by 10 km/h with a bottom limit of 30 km/h... He also thinks it'd be a swell idea to knock the speed limit on all streets around Union Station to 30 km/h and remove all the pedestrian-crossing systems so that pedestrians and vehicles would be able to, umm, negotiate crossings and rights of way on a one-by-one basis. Brill... The Toronto Sun reports that Saundercook, who co-chairs something called the Pedestrian Committee, will be bringing his notions to that committee's next meeting and even if they do pass muster with that group, the ideas would still need City Council's green light... Councillor, Doug Holyday, told the newspaper the idea doesn't make any sense, but he wouldn't be surprised if council adopted it anyway... Labels: speed limits
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