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CTV News
7 days ago
- General
- CTV News
‘Like taking my life in my hands': northeast seniors home residents call for crosswalk
About two dozen residents of Silvera Vista seniors home gathered by the roadside Friday waving hand-made placards, demanding a crosswalk a new bus stop location, and traffic lights. Residents of a northeast Calgary seniors home say crossing a nearby road nearby feels so dangerous they had to organize a protest to get their concerns across to the city. There's no crosswalk at the intersection and they say large trucks drive at high speeds. About two dozen residents of Silvera Vista seniors home gathered by the roadside Friday waving hand-made placards, demanding a crosswalk a new bus stop location, and traffic lights. No signs 39th Avenue and 26 Street N.E. are unmarked. No matter which direction residents want to cross, there aren't any signs for traffic to slow down. 'I organized this rally for the safety of these people trying to cross four lanes of traffic,' said Warren Freeborn, resident and rally organizer. He says residents using walkers and mobility scooters especially struggle to catch the bus without a stop along 39 Avenue. They have to walk down to 37 Avenue, following a route with no sidewalk that forces some of them into the road. 'Crossing this road was like taking my life in my hands,' said Karla Wallington, who opted for a motorized mobility scooter out of concern for crossing the nearby intersection. She later added, 'I've been almost hit at least twice.' Debra Jones says she feels shuffled aside. 'We're all at risk and I want the city to hear us. We count too,' she said. Ward 10 Councillor Andre Chabot met with residents a year and a half ago, and told CTV News that the nearby mosque and school have made similar requests for the area. City of Calgary responds In an e-mailed statement to CTV News The City of Calgary responded with the following statement: 'As part of our standard practice, (our) mobility (department) will be performing a safety and engineering assessment from a corridor perspective, including working with Calgary Transit on reviewing routes and stop locations along 26th Street and 39th Avenue NE. 'This approach will look at more holistic way to address the residents' concerns, and the safety needs of the community.' The city did not provide a timeline. Freeborn says he was given a rough estimate of the city's costs to make the changes to the bus route and bus stop at $1.4 million. 'Is that a price they put on a life?' he asked. The City of Calgary also said: 'Over the past 10 years, The City of Calgary has received five requests through 311 for crosswalks or traffic controls to be installed at locations within 100 metres of 39th Avenue and 26th Street NE. 'There have been two additional similar 311 requests from Silvera For Seniors - Vista Apartments at 2622 39th Avenue N.E. There have been two recorded pedestrian-involved collisions in the past decade and neither resulted in injuries that required hospitalization." The city says the first step for any request for transit or mobility improvements is to reach out to 311. 'The other method is through the Calgary Transit website. On the 'Contact Us' page on there is a section to provide feedback online, and from there they can submit a Bus Stop Service Request. 'In both cases, the feedback will be directed through the appropriate channels to the right person for review.' -30-
CTV News
04-06-2025
- General
- CTV News
Canada's first military-connected college crosswalk opens at Fanshawe
Hundreds gather at Fanshawe College to watch the unveiling of Canada's first military crosswalk, reports CTV London's Lauren Stallone.
CTV News
04-06-2025
- General
- CTV News
Canada's first military crosswalk unveiled
Hundreds gather at Fanshawe College to watch the unveiling of Canada's first military crosswalk, reports CTV London's Lauren Stallone.
The Guardian
04-06-2025
- General
- The Guardian
Virginia activist charged with vandalism after drawing crosswalk at intersection
After officials in Charlottesville, Virginia, reportedly ignored his pleas to implement a pedestrian crosswalk at a dangerous intersection, traffic safety activist Kevin Cox drew a crossing with chalk. Authorities responded by covering Cox's handiwork with black paint and charging him with vandalism in a case that evidently demonstrates how acrimonious relations can sometimes get between local government bureaucrats in the US and those who say they are trying to hold them to account. As the Charlottesville news station WVIR put it, Cox is well known in the community for his outspoken pedestrian safety advocacy. He had recently focused his efforts on a municipal intersection where a 64-year-old woman was struck by a motorist and killed while trying to cross the road to get to work in October. Cox said he had since pleaded with city officials to lay down a crosswalk at that intersection. Those efforts went nowhere, so he said he took a line marker as well as a can of spray chalk to fashion a makeshift crosswalk on 17 May – a Saturday – as a crowd of onlookers cheered him. He also reportedly wrote an email to Charlottesville's city manager which read: 'There is a marked crosswalk now [at the intersection in question] in spite of you … It's chalk[,] not paint[.] Please replace it with a real one.' Police subsequently called Cox and accused him of committing vandalism. He soon surrendered and was booked with intentional destruction of property, which carries up to a year in jail as well as a maximum fine of $2,500, WVIR reported. A police report that Cox shared with the news station alleged that officers were unable to determine whether his improvised crosswalk had been created with permanent paint. Officials determined the crosswalk could not be removed, so city workers covered it with black paint. Cox has gotten a lawyer and was given a trial date tentatively scheduled for 14 July. 'They have provoked me,' Cox told WVIR. 'It's not going to stop me. 'This is a common cause for many people in the city. It's all about our day-to-day quality of life on the streets and the sidewalks, and everyone is affected by that.' A Charlottesville municipal spokesperson said on Tuesday that the city would not comment on the case against Cox because it was pending. Many know Charlottesville as the site of the unrelated 2017 white supremacist rally objecting to the removal of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee. A demonstrator protesting against the white supremacists was murdered by a neo-Nazi sympathizer who intentionally drove a car into her as well as others.
CTV News
02-06-2025
- General
- CTV News
Child struck by hit-and-run driver in crosswalk west of Edmonton
An RCMP cruiser can be seen in this file photo. Police are looking for a driver of a vehicle that struck a youth in Spruce Grove last month. The victim was rollerblading in a designated crosswalk on Nelson Drive between Meadowpark Gate and Westlake Drive on May 4 when they were struck by a vehicle that left the scene. The youth was treated in hospital. The vehicle is described as a dark blue SUV driven by a man with a brown beard wearing a dark coloured baseball cap. Anyone with information is asked to contact Parkland RCMP at 825-220-2000. The age and gender of the victim has not been released.
