A speed limit sign in downtown Toronto Toronto will lower the speed limits on close to 50 of its busiest streets as soon as possible, in an effort to reduce the number of traffic fatalities in the city, the mayor announced late June.We simply have to see drivers slow down on streets where the numbers show us that speed has put peoples lives at risk, Mayor John Tory said at a news conference June 20.The speed limit reductions are part of the second phase of the citys Vision Zero plan, launched 2017 and so-named because it aims to lower the number of people killed on Toronto streets to zero, explains BlogTO.The city saw some 66 car collision fatalities in 2018, 40 of which involved pedestrians; it came off of a ten-year record-high number of deaths in 2016, when they totaled some 78.Proud to join City staff this morning to bring forward an evidence-based #VisionZero 2.0 Plan, focused on taking action to lower speed limits on hundreds of kilometres on our arterial roads across the city. pic.twitter.com/ESMJrlaRzp John Tory (@JohnTory) June 20, 2019The list of streets that will see their limits dropped include many 50 km/h, 60 km/h and 70 km/h major arteries, each of which will see its limit dropped by 10 km/h. The mayor even suggested speeding up the process by putting stickers over the speed limit signs if new ones couldnt be ordered quickly enough.Other proposed changes, says the magazine, are improving safety where there is roadwork, enhancing road lighting and advocating for the province to change the maximum Blood Alcohol Concentration for motorcyclists to zero per
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