A Toronto metropolis councillor is asking for a right away overview of security measures after a lady was critically injured by a development car engaged on the Ontario Line.
In response to Toronto police, a 46-year-old woman was struck by a dump truck whereas crossing on the intersection of Mortimer and Pape Avenues on Feb. 6. She was taken to hospital with life-threatening accidents.
“I was saddened and shocked to learn that a woman was hit by a Metrolinx sub-contractors dump truck on Thursday,” Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher says in a letter launched on Sunday.
“I’m outraged that the dump truck was not using the approved ‘haul’ route for Ontario Line construction vehicles when it hit the pedestrian.”
Fletcher says one of many main issues with the transit undertaking has been the protection of pedestrians and faculty kids. She says particular haul routes had been designed to restrict journey by way of dense, residential streets and decrease these dangers.
“Now, one of the worst possible incidents has happened, all because Metrolinx’s contractor was not following the designated haul route.
This is unacceptable,” writes Fletcher whereas calling on the provincial transit company to research the contractor’s actions.
She additionally desires a right away security overview of the Pape-Sammon Ontario Line web site, which she claims has change into a “larger construction zone” than initially deliberate in addition to a overview of different Ontario Line work zones.
“Metrolinx needs to make public a ‘safe haulage’ plan for the transport of soil from its future Gerrard and Carlaw portal, where an estimated 100 dump trucks per day will remove excavated soil from the 4.2 km of subway tunnels to be built between Gerrard and the Don Valley.”
Related security issues had been raised by Liberty Village residents after it was revealed as much as 400 dump vehicles may doubtlessly be driving by way of the neighbourhood’s predominant thoroughfare each day as a part of Ontario Line development. Metrolinx finally revised their plan to maintain dump vehicles off the realm’s predominant roads.
The Ontario Line is a 15-stop 15.6-kilometre route that begins at Exhibition Place, by way of the center of downtown, all the best way to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT at Don Mills Street. It’s tentatively scheduled to open in 2031.
