Pedestrian, Kids & Cyclist Safety and Neighborhood Walkability Survey
The Safety Committee of the Pocket Community Association has developed a number of proposals for improving pedestrian and cyclist safety and walkability for our neighbourhood.

These proposals are based on several months of research, observation and informal discussion and consultation (via Facebook, gatherings of the committee, etc.). In addition, we worked with a group of Ryerson students from the School of Urban and Regional Planning, who included our neighbourhood in their course, Advanced Planning Studio II.  Their detailed report "Design for Walkability" reviews the walkability and pedestrian safety of our neighbourhood and another neighbourhood just to the south of the tracks and makes recommendations, based on recent studies, for improving these.  

Our proposals are focused on the built environment and do not focus on the behaviour/education of drivers and pedestrians.
We believe these proposals are within the realm of the possible and most can be realistically implemented in the current regulatory framework of the City of Toronto or could become a pilot project (with a decent amount of advocacy and community involvement)!

The objective of these initiatives is to help make our neighbourhood streets safer for crossing, playing, cycling and transiting to area schools and daycares.

Below you will be asked to rate each proposal and its elements. Please keep in mind the objective of each proposal when rating and commenting on the proposal. You may also add your own proposals at the end of the survey. We love any input you have to give and in the coming months we will share these results and begin to advocate for implementation of some of them.

Please note: This survey is confidential if you choose.  


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What street do you live on? *
What is your primary mode of transportation to places outside the Pocket *
What mode do you spend the most time per week using to get outside the Pocket
Are there kids under 16 living in your home? *
What is your email address? (not required)
This is so we can follow-up with you if we have questions about your comments
1. Baird/Strathcona/Jones Intersection
To make the Baird/Strathcona/Jones intersection safer for kids/pedestrians crossing to and from local schools, daycare and Eastview community centres, we propose the following changes:
1. Extending or Bumping out the east side sidewalk with the use of bollards or planters, or more permanently via sidewalk concrete extension (similar to Logan Avenue).
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
Comment or Suggestion on the above proposal?
Do you have a comment or suggestion that you would like to make about the above proposal? How can it be made better? Do you have alternative solution for this area?
2. Boultbee/Jones Intersection
To make the Boultbee / Jones intersection safer for kids/pedestrians crossing to and from local schools, daycare and Eastview Community Centre.  This is a complicated intersection with several options on the table:
1. Move both bus stops north, out of the intersection, thereby improving sightlines for turning cars, and cars travelling north and south.
Strongly against & would advocate against
Strong support and would advocate for
Clear selection
2. Restrict turns off of Boultbee during school travel hours when the crosswalk is most often in use (8-9 am mornings and 3-4 pm afternoons) so that eastbound traffic could only turn left (north) and westbound traffic could only turn right (north) during those hours.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
3 Install symbolic bollards (waist height posts) on the sidewalks near the crosswalks.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
4. Raise the grade of the crosswalk to provide a visual signal for drivers to pay attention and reduce their speed.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
5 Install “rumble strips” that provide a visual and physical signal to cars that they are approaching a crosswalk.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
Comment or Suggestion on the above Boutlbee/Jones proposals?
Do you have a comment or suggestion that you would like to make any of the proposals? How can they be made better? Do you have alternative solution for this area?
3. Speed Limits
To reduce car speed in the neighbourhood
Decrease the speed limit to 30km/hr throughout the neighbourhood
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
Comment or Suggestion on the above proposal?
Do you have a comment or suggestion that you would like to make about the above proposal? How can it be made better? Do you have alternative solution for this area?
4. Blake / Boultbee Intersection
To make the Blake / Boultbee intersection (west of Jones in front of Blake School) safer for our neighbourhood kids crossing to and from local schools, daycare and Eastview Community.
1. Bump out the sidewalks at the crosswalk, thereby narrowing the distance kids cross and creating a narrowing of the road, reducing car speed all at times.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
2. Create designated school bus pick up and drop off zones on Blake St. and Keswick (thus removing buses from Boultbee in front of the school and away from the crosswalk – both for ingoing and outgoing kids) . Create a designated car drop off zone on Boultbee, partially “protected” by the crosswalk bumpout.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
Comment or Suggestion on the above proposal?
Do you have a comment or suggestion that you would like to make about the above proposal? How can it be made better? Do you have alternative solution for this area?
5. Cyclist Safety
To improve cycling safety in the neighbourhood
1. Install a bike lane on Chatham avenue, connecting Jones and Greenwood bike lanes, and extending the east/west bike lake that currently ends at Jones (runs along Strathcona)
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
2.  Repaint double lines on the Jones bike lanes to ensure lanes are clear
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
Comment or Suggestion on the above proposals?
Do you have a comment or suggestion that you would like to make about the above proposals? How can they be made better? Do you have alternative solution for this area?
6. Safer Crossings
To create more and safer crossings particularly along well traveled routes, other than the above intersections:
1. Adjust the placement of stop signs and ensure stop signs are accompanied by painted lines on the street thereby increasing their effectiveness
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
2. Test the use of other road markings to delineate crossings. Intersections to be examined will include: Seymour and Shudell, Earl Grey and Baird, Boultbee and Condor.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
3. Test the use of Paint-the-Pavement road murals at Chatham and Euston, and Condor and Shudell which would act as visual stopping cue to motorists.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
7. Slowing Down Car Traffic
To further slow car traffic in the neighbourhood, particularly on stretches of wider roads and/or roads without stop signs
1. Test the placement of well-marked planters on non-parking sides of streets to narrow the street. Locations could include Baird. Chatham, Condor, Hunter.
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
Comment or Suggestion on the above proposal?
Do you have a comment or suggestion that you would like to make about the above proposal? How can it be made better? Do you have alternative solution for this area?
8. Sharing Streets
To encourage the sharing of streets and making the neighbourhood even more kid-friendly:
1. Amend by-law coverage restricting playing of ball hockey on city streets (“No Ball Hockey” signs)
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
2. Install more “Kids at play” signs
Strongly against and would advocate against
Strongly support and would advocate for
Clear selection
Comment or Suggestion on the above proposals?
Do you have a comment or suggestion that you would like to make about the above proposals? How can they be made better? Do you have alternative solution for this area?
9. Your Ideas and Proposals
Do you have other ideas that could be implemented in the neighbourhood that you believe to be cost effective and doable within the next 2-3 years?
10. People Power Needed
Welcoming new volunteers!
Please let us know if you'd like to join the Safety Commitee and help us implement some of the above proposals. We can use all the help we can get! Make sure to include your email address above if you answer yes.
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