CP24:
A group of downtown councillors had asked General Manager of Transportation Services Stephen Buckley to look into the feasibility of lowering speed limits from 40 to 30 km/h but in a report that will be considered by the Toronto and East York community council next Monday, the bureaucrat warned that the blanket reduction of speed limits may not be effective.
And this is justified with the following logic:
At the time, the Ward 22 Coun. cited a 2012 report from the Chief Medical Officer of Health that suggested that pedestrians have a 20 per cent chance of dying when hit by a vehicle travelling at 50 km/h and only a five per cent chance of death when that vehicle is travelling at 40 km/h.
Here's an even better idea: Reduce the speed limit to 1 km/h and that way no one will ever die in a car accident again!
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