Second injury at Island airport intersection in 2 weeks

‘This pedestrian crossing is rendered unsafe by the huge volume of traffic speeding to and from the Toronto Island airport terminal’

By Brian Iler –

A young woman was struck by a car at Bathurst and Queens Quay about 1:50 p.m. April 23.

She was hit by the silver car stopped in the middle of the crossing lane.

She didn’t appear to be seriously hurt. It took some time, but she was eventually able to walk to the corner with assistance from fire personnel. She left in an ambulance.

This is the second injury at this intersection in recent days. A cyclist was struck by a car on April 7 and taken to hospital.

This pedestrian crossing is rendered unsafe by the huge volume of traffic speeding to and from the Toronto Island airport terminal. The 2-lane road, which runs between a park and a building containing a community centre, two schools, and a day care centre, in the midst of a residential neighbourhood, is the only vehicular access to the airport.

Parents whose children attend the schools at the southeast corner of this intersection have been forced to hold banners to stop cars from disregarding the crossing guard on duty.

CommunityAIR has demanded that the Toronto Port Authority reduce the volume of traffic its airport generates until solutions are found to preserve the public’ safety at this intersection.

It has refused.