Lulu Island Access

Dear Kanny,
I’m writing to review my visit in January 2018 with you at city hall when I stopped in to show you a video of my concerns on Ewen Street.
At the time I had identified several concerns related to safety of pedestrians crossing Ewen street.
1. Lack of visibility due to too many turn signs
2. Lack of visibility due to the yellow and black signs being to big and too many
3. Sight lines of pedestrians were restricted due to cement barriers
4. Sight line of pedestrians restricted due to choice of plant and shrubs on the corners and boulevards.
From our conversation you mentioned a few items
1. Industry standards for signage
2. Vegetation being identified as a problem
3. Follow up evaluation would be conducted with the engineers sometime in the next few weeks of our meeting
4. Improvements to be suggested for the west side of Ewan.
I heard only recently that there was a pedestrian hit on the East side of Ewan in June. I’m also aware of one accident that totaled a car as someone tried to turn left on to Ewan. Hopefully you have more stats on the other incidences that I am not aware of.

You can appreciate my concern as school will be starting in the next week, the rain has started and the days are getting shorter.

When I compare the vegetation this year to last year I do not see any improvements to the sight lines for the cars and pedestrians. I expect this would have been the easiest and most cost efficient improvement that could have been made by the city to ensure safety. The signage is obscuring visibility and I would hope safety would come before industry standards as there are too many turn signs and reflectors on Ewen from the Community Centre to the Street lights going East..Please look at the photo's 1-3 in order to see how easily a child in grade 3 could be hit. You can not see her in picture 1 and 2.
(looks like I can only upload one picture please respond for more pictures from today)

Hard to see people and children crossing over to Red Boat park. Please maintain all beds in Port Royal neighbourhood. They are over run with horse tail and tall grass

Unsafe left turns throughout Ewen Avenue due to island. Small trees and bushes planted within the island block view of oncoming traffic.

poor paving work has collapsed into a series of potholes and rough roadbed. extremely dangerous especially at night because the area is poorly lit. drivers slam on the brakes to avoid damage. Also, the road width has recently been reduced so cars swerving to avoid potholes end up in oncoming traffic

this light is way too short its literally 20 seconds long and it barely let's 4 cars go through it causes so much traffic when you're trying to get across to the shopping center please address this issue it's ridiculous

This intersection needs a complete overhaul and redesign. The congestion from 3pm is ridiculous as cars are all fighting to turn onto Howe, which is single lane until the next light. When the lights are green, cars have nowhere to go other than be creative by using every inch of the road and shoulders. Vehicles turning right from Ewen are legally required to turn on Green only, but when it's Green, they can't go because cars have already piled into the intersection.

Where are the cross walk signs

It's not even rush hour and there is no way to leave Queensborough. City must address poor design issues in this intersection. If there was flooding or another emergency that required the population to leave fast this neighborhood we would be in serious problems. This is unacceptable.

the construction has dangerously narrowed the road for any pedestrians. someone is going to get hit by a car. it's an ill lit blind corner with zero shoulder.

Drug paraphernalia left out in the path (picked those up as they are dangerous) as well as other garbage being left out

There's someone that's set up a tent and living on city property that's near Portside, on the river walk. This poses a threat as there are people walking their dogs and going on walks with their children. Neighbours of Portside have indicated this man trespassing onto private property and has been using drugs. Paraphernalia has been scattered around the river walk.

Bushes between walking path and street on both sides of Holley st are so tall you can’t see oncoming cars coming on ewen ave to turn out from Holley st safely.