Friends and Families for Safe Streets

child on ipad with headphones: maybe we should stop worrying about the screens kids are on adult driving looking at phone AND START WORRYING ABOUT THE SCREENS ADULTS ARE ON One thing leads to another.

Screen Time.

Matt Elliott: Toronto police are doing less — but asking for more money. Why is Olivia Chow determined to give them what they want? At Tuesday’s budget meeting, city councillors will debate the mayor’s 2026 spending plan, which includes a $94-million boost for the Toronto Police Service.

My @thestar.com column: With Toronto cops facing a huge corruption scandal, it should be impossible for Mayor Olivia Chow and Toronto council to just rubber-stamp yet another big police budget increase today.

The job of police reform is not done. Not by a longshot.

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If you are hurting and struggling in the aftermath of road violence, you are not alone. You are warmly welcome to join us on Sun Feb 11 at 1:00pm for our monthly support meeting. Please DM us if you'd like to join on Zoom so we can send you the link.
More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca/support_serv...

Doug Gordon, Sarah Goodyear Lucy Maloney and me on a stage with graphics on a screen behind

Was lucky to have been invited on to the Vancouver stop of @thewaroncars.bsky.social book tour this past Fall - They will be in Toronto this Thursday night - highly recommend going if you are in town. www.cycleto.ca/cars

Toronto! Tickets are now available to the general public for our live show on Thursday, February 5th at the Hot Docs Ted Rodgers Cinema, presented by @cycletoronto.bsky.social.

Take that, Doug Ford!

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Breaking news. Absent local councillor still doesn't give a shit. Vote them out, term limits, whatever. Get this loser out of here.

The state of the already terrifying sidewalk on Parkside drive. Fuck me I guess? Nothing can be done.
@ffsafestreets.bsky.social

I fought for safer Toronto streets after my friend was killed five years ago. Now Doug Ford is undoing that work Premier Doug Ford and Transportation Minister Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria are actively dismantling the very infrastructure that so many of us fought to put in place.

"The Ford govt is escalating its retreat from road safety. Bill 60, building on Bill 212 and championed by Sarkaria, would prohibit municipalities from reallocating vehicle lanes towards safer, more complete streets...These are choices that deliberately increase risk"
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It’s the big day! The appeal hearing @cycletoronto.bsky.social’s successful Bill 212 case is being heard at Ontario’s Court of Appeal. Time permitting I’ll try and live post the proceedings, like I did for the Ottawa convey injunctions back when #lawtwitter was a thing.

Let’s use the snow to build protected intersections before the cars come back #walkto @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @shawnmicallef.bsky.social @rzaichkowski.bsky.social

Toronto recorded fewest traffic-related deaths in a decade in 2025: city data | CBC News Numbers show 39 people died on Toronto's roads last year, half as many as when the city launched its road safety plan a decade ago. But some wonder if the number will go back up with speed cameras now...

"Jess S, a road safety advocate w/ @ffsafestreets.bsky.social, said she’s worried traffic safety around schools, where most cameras were installed, could suffer in 2026.“You're putting children at risk. I cannot wrap my mind around any rationale for something like that" 1/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Having a transportation system that results in violent death is not normal. This is a policy failure. This is all 100% preventable.

The members of FFSS are battered, we are bruised, we are broken, we are bone-deep exhausted, and we will NEVER stop fighting until this senseless violence is ended.

If you are struggling and hurting in the aftermath of a crash, you are warmly welcome to join our monthly peer support mtg. Please DM us for the Zoom link.

Whether your loved one was killed by a driver or you survived being struck, you are not alone. More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca/support_serv...

My friend was hit in a crosswalk last week in #WalkTO - he is OK but went to hospital & has a concussion 🤕

I checked data... Turns out left turns account for 26% of injuries caused by collisions - pedestrian's had right of way in 24% of cases. So drivers are the problem! @ffsafestreets.bsky.social

The Compassionate Friends supports bereaved parents and grandparents. Today, our hearts are with every parent who has lost a child from road violence or any other cause. Child loss is the worst pain that life can inflict on any human being.

Your children are not forgotten. You are not alone.

If you are struggling in the aftermath of road violence, you are warmly welcome to join our monthly peer support meeting on Sunday at 1:00pm. Join us in person in rm 375 in 401 Richmond or DM us for the link to join on Zoom.
You are not alone.
More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca/support_services

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IntegrityTO integrity_to 5 Kraftwerk • Planet Der Visionen Follow Red lanes causing gridlock on Dufferin Liked by prabsarkaria and others integrity_to RapidTO is already causing havoc on

Uh oh, Ontario transportation minister Prabmeet Sarkaria liked this IntegrityTO video blaming bus lanes for car congestion…

Images of emergency service vehicle and personnel on scene after a crash “Safe Parkside Faraz Gholizadeh • 13h • B A pedestrian was struck by a turning motorist around 6pm today at the Parkside Drive and Howard Park Ave intersection. The pedestrian was put on a stretcher and rushed to the hospital. This predictable and preventable incident occurred less than 2 weeks after Doug Ford and the Ontario Conservatives put an end to speed cameras across the province. Shame on the City of Toronto for their decades of inaction and shame on Doug Ford for siding with speeders and vandals over the advice of school boards, police chiefs and doctors from the Hospital for Sick Children.”

Not surprised. Just heartbroken.

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#VisionZero

‘We will never stop fighting’: Queen’s Park vigil honours traffic violence victims The ceremony was organized by a group of collision survivors pushing for improved road design and legislation, while working to change public attitudes towards traffic.

Excellent coverage of yesterday's World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims event. Thank you to everyone who joined us this year. We will never stop fighting until our streets are safe.

#WDoR2025 #RememberSupportAct #SpeedKills #SpeedCamerasSaveLives

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2025 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

Thanks Jess of @ffsafestreets.bsky.social for hosting tonight's World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims at Queen's Park. My blog post about the event which about 40 people attended is now up. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero #WDoR www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2025/11/2025...

My good friend Jess reading out names of innocent ppl who have a lost their lives to road violence.

Candles represent lives lost.

It’s so wrong when our elected reps place the convenience of drivers over prioritizing the safety of vulnerable road users.

via @ffsafestreets.bsky.social #WDoR2025

TODAY! Join us in front of Queen's Park. Gather at 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start. Show our leaders that the loved ones killed in car crashes are not forgotten and we will not stop fighting until our streets are safe. #WDoR2025

We'll be in front of his other office today, the day the speed cameras go dark. Would love to have you join us for a few laps of our marathon!

our crossing guards do mission impossible and I am so thankful for all of them, but JFC the fact that we need "Guards" to simply ensure drivers don't run over school children?
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.

large intersection with painted crosswalks

A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking.
Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Speaking of, vivil in front of Doug's office on Sunday.

We also need help manning our table to collect petition signatures and public engagement with folks passing by.

Parents are not going to tolerate this govt taking away a proven, effective, self-sustaining road safety tool in school zones. Taking away speed cameras is a guaranteed death sentence.

Join Parents Against Speeding and FFSS in a literal marathon walk (42km) in circles around Doug Ford's constituency office. We're going to show him that we're in it for the long haul, and this fight is NOT over.

Join us for a few laps, or a few hours.
964 Albion Rd Etobicoke
Anytime between 12-8pm

Doug Ford's effort to kill speed safety cameras, and essentially ban any road diets or complete streets anywhere in Ontario isn't just a cheap political stunt. It will determine who lives and who dies on our streets. It will get innocent people killed and severely injured. It will shatter families.

Join us Sun Nov 16 4:30pm at Queen's Park (South Lawn) for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. We are holding it at QP for the second year in a row because our govt continues to wage war on road safety, guaranteeing more violent death and devastation from car crashes.