The quick, the safe and the cyclist

Speed kills. Toronto's medical officer of health, Dave McKeown, has been warning us about that since 2012. As his report, Road To Health: Improving Walking And Cycling in Toronto, shows, there's an 85 per cent chance that a pedestrian struck by a car travelling at 50 km/h will be killed. The fatality rate decreases to less than 5 per cent when a car's doing 30 km/h. That's why on June 22, Toronto and East York Community Council voted to reduce the speed limit to 30 km/h on all local residential roads within its jurisdiction, with phase-in beginning in September. Read more.