Pedestrians are having a bad time: a woman was hit by a cement truck on the turn Monday morning in Cartierville and is in bad shape.
Global reports that police say 18 pedestrians have died on Montreal’s streets so far this year.
The city plans a public conference on pedestrian and cyclist safety later this month but if there’s any technical fix for the trucks-turning-corners problem it should be made mandatory. Right away. And not after years of negligent waffling.
There was a conference on mobility Monday, where – as Mathias Marchal says – it became clear that while over ten years, we’ve had 6,250 Bixis, a 40% increase in bike paths, buses and metros covering 15% more km than ten years ago, all this, and yet the car is still king.
Another 9,300 cars are added to the city every year and yet nobody believes me when I say we need to limit the number of permits handed out.
Update: As Brett notes below, yet another pedestrian was mowed down Monday evening in (not on) St-Laurent. Radio-Canada reassures us the driver was not hurt. – Update: this pedestrian has died.
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