November City Council Recap
This month's City Council session was especially significant for me, as two initiatives I've worked on for a long time came to fruition.
Most of the changes to the intersection of Dundas Street East and Jones Avenue will be going ahead without a need for Toronto Council’s approval – but on Sept. 16, the Toronto and East York Community Council recommended the approval of a restriction of right turns on a red light.
“Council has to approve that,” said local Ward 14 (Toronto Danforth) Coun. Paula Fletcher following the vote at community council. “But the rest of this has been done by staff.”“I would like to see if there’s ways of making these lanes even better,” she said. “What I have seen in my time representing the community is that the intersections are where the flashpoints are for cyclists.”
Savage agreed that the plan at Jones and Dundas should be a blueprint. "If those changes had been made last year there was no way that truck could have possibly hit Doug," he said. Fletcher said she’s looking next at the intersection of Carlaw Avenue and Dundas, and also at the intersections along the cycle track on Lakeshore Boulevard. “There have been a lot of crashes there – they are unsafe intersections,” she said.This month's City Council session was especially significant for me, as two initiatives I've worked on for a long time came to fruition.
Danforth Pizza House celebrating 60th anniversary today with special guests.
City Council to consider a report recommending the approval of a renovictions by-law.