[thettctransitfanatic]

3 million people in Toronto going to the Daily Bread Food Bank... 1 Education Minister spending almost 2K on meals!

Education minister faces questions over $1.7K in Queen’s Park restaurant bills | Globalnews.ca

Ontario's education minister is facing scrutiny of his expenses, after his office declined to release details of the money he has spent on restaurant meals.

globalnews.ca

 

[gabe]

More dead people, less people paying taxes, I guess... /s

Just the other day in Guelph i saw on the news, a driver killed a woman who was crossing the street at the crosswalk in a 40 zone, with her family. Mother was killed and the baby was airlifted to Hamilton. My guess the driver was driving at a high rate of speed and couldn't stop in time. Or was distracted driving at a high rate of speed. If he was doing the speed limit. He would clearly see people cross the street at the cross walk at 5 PM when its still day light out, AND on a residential street! Not an expressway or the 401.

Mother dies from her injuries after family struck at Guelph crosswalk

A Guelph woman has died after she and her family were struck by a pickup truck on Friday.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[afransen]

Not sure how high volume that intersection is. From streetview it looks like it must not be very high volume. Maybe it could be converted to a small roundabout, along with hardening the centre line.

At some point, it is difficult to stop 19 year old men from being stupid. The best solution is to encourage them to use alternatives to driving.

 

[Mihairokov]

At some point, it is difficult to stop 19 year old men from being stupid. The best solution is to encourage them to use alternatives to driving.

I'm hesitant to blame young men specifically. Any time I have a run-in with a driver in Toronto they are always of various ages.

 

[zang]

Just the other day in Guelph i saw on the news, a driver killed a woman who was crossing the street at the crosswalk in a 40 zone, with her family. Mother was killed and the baby was airlifted to Hamilton. My guess the driver was driving at a high rate of speed and couldn't stop in time. Or was distracted driving at a high rate of speed. If he was doing the speed limit. He would clearly see people cross the street at the cross walk at 5 PM when its still day light out, AND on a residential street! Not an expressway or the 401.

I used to live on Bagot, the next street east from Alma. Paisley has always been an area for speeders as it's one of the a handful of streets that crosses Edinburgh and can get you from one side of the city to the other.

For a good sense of why, note that Paisley—despite being highly residential—has few stop lights or signs and is a 4-lane pseudo-highway just a km west of Alma.