Toronto councillors beef up city’s road-safety program with new emphasis on heavy trucks

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Council unanimously approved five motions related to road safety on Thursday. Although some reiterate old positions or ask other governments to do things, others could have a more immediate impact.

Councillor Jaye Robinson, who was head of the committee that introduced Vision Zero, called for the plan to include tactics aimed specifically at heavy trucks. She noted a study showing Toronto pedestrians hit by trucks were more than twice as likely to be killed as those hit by smaller vehicles.

She pointed to a number of ways to address this danger, including better trucker training, better co-ordination to prevent multiple nearby development sites having trucks visit on the same day and perhaps more rules restricting the size of trucks on certain streets.

 

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