The City of Toronto today received the prestigious 2016 Road Safety Engineering Award for its Curb Radii Design Guidelines from the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) at its annual conference in Toronto. These guidelines will become a standard for urban centres across the country. A curb radius (radii is the plural) is the curved part of a corner at an intersection connecting two roadways.
As part of the second phase of its congestion management plan, the City of Toronto is making changes to 10 congested intersections or "hotspots" as part of a strategy to improve the overall flow of traffic at these locations. Mayor Tory made the announcement this morning at one of the hotspots, Finch Avenue East and Victoria Park Avenue.
The Toronto Public Service announced its 2016 United Way fundraising goal of $1.35 million at the campaign launch event today at Nathan Phillips Square. City officials were joined by representatives of the municipal unions and associations. The Toronto Public Service's United Way fundraising campaign is led jointly by unions and management.
StreetARToronto (StART) unveiled murals today at the Pottery Road underpass just north of the Todmorden Mills Museum to celebrate the beauty of the Don Valley neighbourhood.
More than 2,000 residents have shared their ideas to reduce Toronto's greenhouse gas emissions and create a low-carbon city through TransformTO: Climate Action for a Healthy, Equitable and Prosperous Toronto, a City initiative in partnership with the Toronto Atmospheric Fund.
