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Toronto’s Mayor-elect, John Tory, has mentioned in a recent dialogue with reporters that he’s open to the idea presented by city staff to narrow Toronto streets in order to reduce speeds and increase safety as long as it does not add or worsen traffic congestion.
Addressing reporters at City Hall on Tuesday, Tory stated that “Mr. (Stephen) Buckley, (general manager of the city’s transportation services department) says, and his experts, that this is in fact will help traffic to move more smoothly and some of these lanes are already in place on streets like Danforth and University Ave.” On the other hand, Tory mentioned “I just want to make sure that is in fact what is achieved because if as we move to implement this in different places it actually has the effect of making the traffic congestion worse than I think it’s something we’re going to have to take another look at.”
The idea has been proposed by City staff, which has also drafted new guidelines that call for the redrawing of lanes on city streets to reduce their width. The process could take years. In his remarks, Tory pointed out that other cities like New York and Chicago have narrowed lane size to improve traffic flow and safety. He alleged that “it is on that basis that I would say let’s take a look at doing it at other places (in Toronto.)” Tory promised to make fighting gridlock one of his top priorities.
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