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All-way stop signs at Kendal, Bridgman, and Macpherson; staff to install crosswalk
A councillor's motion asks city staff to install all-way stop control at a three-way intersection in Leslieville and add a crosswalk across Kendal Avenue. Residents have raised safety concerns about high foot traffic to Dupont subway station and George Brown College without a designated crossing.
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• The intersection lacks a designated crosswalk despite heavy pedestrian traffic to Dupont subway and George Brown College Casa Loma Campus.
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Wed, Jul 8 · Toronto and East York Community Council · adopted
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ContainedA single intersection receives a traffic control upgrade; the decision is genuine and bounded. A future council could remove the stop signs or modify the crosswalk without serious cost, though once installed it would be politically awkward. No budget departure or control shift. Affects one location.Touches a narrow groupPedestrian safety at one specific intersection matters acutely to people who cross it daily (Dupont commuters, George Brown students, residents). But that is a defined group in one location, not a recognizable city-wide cohort, and nothing changes for most residents this week. The salience is real but narrowly bounded.
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