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Tory launches ‘Vision Zero 2.0’ with aim of lowering speed limits, making safer pedestrian crossings

March 20, 2019 | by Lauren Pelley, Laura Howells, CBC News

Photo of a street in Toronto with pedestrians, cyclists and a streetcar. Words on the image say: Build The Vision TO, Safe and Active Streets for All

“The ongoing and increasing traffic deaths indicate it clearly has not been effective,” said Yvonne Verlinden, project manager at the Centre for Active Transportation.

“It’s been a lot of quick fixes and putting up signage … There was hope that would lead to results and clearly it hasn’t.”

Verlinden said speed limits can have a “huge” impact.

“If you get hit by a vehicle moving at 30 kilometres an hour, that’s a very different situation from getting hit at 60 kilometres an hour,” she said, noting that suburbs have many high-speed roads where people walk.

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