Driver of stolen Hummer crashes into police cruisers in Toronto
- Thread starter DesRicardo
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If only motor vehicle drivers would just follow the rules.
If only people would not steal from others.
If only pedestrians would just follow the rules.
If only people would not commit assaults.
If only cyclists would just follow the rules.
If only people would not shoot others.
If only people would not crash into others.
If, if, if...
As for my comment about waiting for city council to use an incident like this as justification for more more speed cameras, that's exactly what they did when the elderly couple were killed on Parkside. It drives me nuts that they continually reference that crash when they talk about implementing safety measures. There's nothing (other than installing speed bumps every 50 feet) that would've prevented that crash. Anyone who thinks otherwise, is living in dreamworld.
In case you've forgotten about the perp, here's a little refresher. Now does he sound like someone who's going to follow the rules?
No rules are ever going to prevent these lunatics. Unfortunately...
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-suspended-driver-decimated-family
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In the past decade, there have been almost 1,500 collisions on that tiny two-kilometer stretch of road named Parkside Dr. 21 pedestrians and 30 cyclists were hit in that time. The camera was installed after two seniors in a car were killed there in 2021. It was meant to send a message: slow down.
Motorists have been sending a "F*ck You, We Don't Care" middle finger to residents of the High Park neighborhood and High Park users for decades:
That is the message motorists have been sending to the community with their behavior all along, anyway. From what I’ve read, across North America and across Toronto, speed enforcement cameras, accompanied by signs that display the speed of cars approaching them, are among the most effective ways of getting drivers to slow down. But not on Parkside Drive.
On Parkside Drive, people just keep on speeding, and keep on getting tickets, and then go on speeding again. Most of Toronto’s traffic cameras get shifted around from location to location every few months — like traffic-calming superheroes, they do their job and then move on to help people somewhere else. But the one on Parkside has been there continuously since 2021, specifically because drivers there are not getting the message and slowing down. That location has issued more tickets than any other in the city — more than 63,000 — and raised almost $7 million in revenue.
To be clear, from the city’s perspective, and the neighborhood’s, this is bad news. The job of the camera isn’t to raise cash. It’s to dissuade people from speeding. And it has not been doing that.
That stretch of street represents a particular problem in Toronto’s traffic network in trying to balance the goals of moving vehicles quickly and keeping people safe. It is a residential street, with houses lining one side of the road, and it has a lot of pedestrian traffic because High Park is on the other side of the road. But it is also the main route up from Lake Shore and the Gardiner for people in the vast stretch of central-west Toronto. People are using it as a thoroughfare to get to and from much higher-speed, higher-capacity roads.
Motorists haven’t been accepting that message. Instead, at least one of them is using vandalism to send their own message.
C'mon, bike lane monitor, keep on keeping on defending virtuous, law abiding, good neighbor motorists as u always do!
