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I was rather amazed to read that headline in the Toronto Sun, quoting City Councillor Michael Thompson of Scarborough (a pretty car-friendly and cyclist-hostile place, infrastructure-wise) about the causes of the horrific crash of a big truck last week that killed a wife and mother instantly:It's the drivers who use the intersection where a 39-year-old mother was killed Wednesday who are the problem, not the design, the city councillor for the area said yesterday.
"It's people being inattentive," Councillor Michael Thompson said yesterday at the scene.
"It seems to me that very intelligent people get into the cars and it dumbs them down."
In response to Michael Thompson's comment on the horrific car accident in Ward 37 at Lawrence/Warden:
"It seems to me that very intelligent people get into the cars and it dumbs them down."
This is coming from the same person who allowed a Tim Horton's Drive-Through to be placed at Lawrence and Warden (The 'safe' Intersection where the horrific accident happened). I think Michael Thompson is an intelligent person - but a politician of his caliber should know full well that the last thing this intersection needed was a Tim Horton's Drive-Thru. Perhaps, this intersection and his failure to protest a Drive-Thru here contributed to this accident...and many future horrific accidents to come in the future in this safe intersection area full of bad drivers.
Michael, as a community leader - shouldn't you be advising for Green Zones in Ward 37 rather than Drive-Thru's?
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