Thank you so much Johnny! A really important video that does show how dangerous “alot of streets” are;poorly designed streets, and lack of properly designed streets for pedestrian safety.
Absolutely another beautiful sharing adventure piece of work and you doing such an amazing job ! .. gorgeous filming edition captured camera work and thanks again and stay safe my friend and best regards from Montreal QC ! ..
I drove on that road for the first time yesterday and it is really more like an urban highway than a road….quite dangerous as cars were speeding in both directions.
Dufferin is also one of the most dangerous streets in the city. But I DO NOT recommend bike lanes on Dufferin, it would be total insanity, making a bad street even worse, especially on the hill.
It was a kids park you saw through the view from Parkside. It’s a big wooden fortress. There is a sword in the stone there too. Cool little spot opposite the park zoo.
Although I do not live in Toronto any more I do know this road. My brother and sister-in-law live on Bloor just past the north end High Park gates so if they take the Gardiner to head back to the old country (Oakville) and come back into town, its either Kingsway, Windermere or Parkside. the other side of course has Indian Road, Symington and Roncesvalles but Parkside is a straight up down 2 lanes per side shot to Bloor. A dragstrip when not clogged. Another poster pointed out poor road design (correctly) and drivers with a sense of entitlement. Those two alone are a deadly combination. Stupid, crazy suggestion but a thought. Back in the day, the Le Mans 24 hour race (every June) had a straight known as the Mulsanne Straight and before changing it to what I am going to suggest, the cars could do 240mph (rare but a few did). And yes, there were many accidents and fatalities. They put in chicanes or lanes to where you had to slow down and brake before taking off again. It pissed the drivers off but it also saved lives. If you could somewhere somehow put 3 in from Lakeshore to Bloor this could help reduce the collisions and fatalities. Addendum: Watched the video again. (yes John we study what you video) and you can see the road is totally outdated. being from Windsor we understand crappy outdated roads and an ineffective municipal govt. a camera will not solve anything other than being seeing to be doing something or a glorified revenue band-aid. re-design and fix the damn road.
Here in Niagara same speeding and safety issues. It's so easy for todays motorists to speed with these new hi horsepower vehicles and so much distracted driving. I have to have my head on a swivel after a few close calls when I go for my walks.
Good morning, Johnny! Be careful while walking this dangerous street there in Toronto. It looks unsafe here! Happy Holidays from London, England 🏴 🎅🎄🎁
When a speed limit is 50km/h and you get a ticket for 59 km/h I say good. . When you take into account the inaccuracies of speedometers we are left with about 5km/h of wiggle room. For our American adversaries that is like 3 mph
Even if bike lanes are hard to be placed or rejected with the current ontario bill, This street desperately needs a road diet like adding trees in the middle and turn it into a avenue. Even if Parkside still has 4 lanes, Visually it would look narrower so drivers slow down. Lastly ,whenever I need to go North or South in this area as a bike messenger I just use Indian Road or even Roncesvalles for the scenery and shops.
I’ve was born, and have lived here all of my 56 years….I’ve travelled all across the world, there no street in Toronto that isn’t dangerous! We have the traffic from hell…I live at Bloor and Parliment, yet it takes me over 30 minute to reach the on ramp to the Gardiner, only what? 2 kilometres away? I’ve been rear ended 3 times on the DVP alone, all by the Hurontario exit, and came back to to my parked car at the beaches to find my dumper ripped off by someone’s trailer hitch! That just the beginning…it’s maddening, our insurance goes up for things not our fault, thanks to brainless jerks who don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves!
America congrats, America as you know likes bigs buildings, Toronto has many of them for the Americans, at least for America, always wonderful the videos of Johnny for America we want the Americans, America the great, America with Johnny 🇦🇷
America BHA put the bike in order to clear a space for the movils, they from the American Authority, so we have bikes to replace in some sense the cars passing by on the main streets including streets while we´re not talking about the avenues the Americans which is another issue for the American Authority here in the American city, America in this places has everything digitalized since we are one of the ten American cities which are digital so the American can park using the web net on a number of streets basically instead of avenues the American Authority are worried about the main streets, the Americans are focusing, an American salute to the canadians which is American, supergreat is America 🇦🇷
I noticed a pay to park kiosk (or whatever they're called) on the side of the street where there's no parking. The street parking was on the other side of the street. That's odd. Also wondering... you said that street parking causes issues with traffic flow. In a residential area like this, where would residents be expected to park? Most of those houses didn't look like they had much off street parking available. Thanks for your vids! Always enjoy them.
@@mark_spit7839 Most of the houses have a driveway or parking pad out front. Houses on corners have parking off the side streets. The rest have laneways off the side streets or via the north-south parallel road behind them. It’s easy to see using Google Streetview.
One wonders if it would be possible for communities where Il Duce Ford is threatening bike lane removal and a ban on further cycling infrastructure to mount class action lawsuits or even band together as a coalition to mount suits against the province? Unfortunately I am not a legal expert by any means but surely something can be done. Anyway keep up the good fight mate and thanks.
If we make the speed limits 10 kph there will be no lethal accidents. But that defeats the purpose of driving which is to get to places quickly. So we decrease speed limits, add a minute or two to every street and end up adding an extra half hour to a commute. Like any pipe… you slow down the flow you will cause congestion. BTW The province has jurisdiction. Cities are created by the provincial government and are subordinate to the province. The province gives cities the powers they have and can take them away whenever they want.
Yeah the province can take away the city’s powers. Ultimately they could abolish municipal powers altogether. Do we want all of our local decisions being made at Queen’s Park?
@ Did I say I do? It’s normally best to leave local matters with local government. But sometimes local government decisions have to be overridden by the province when they determine they are detrimental. What would you say if your local government approved a toxic dump a block away from your home? You’d probably want the province to step in and prevent it.
Reduced speed limits and other anti-car measures would be much more tolerable if we had the level of rapid public transit that one finds in many big European or Asian cities. Toronto has one of the worst average commute times.
@ Who decides which bike lanes are “detrimental?” Why is the province in a better position to make that determination than the municipality? We can’t just ask the province to step in whenever we disagree with a local decision. What if we flipped it and required the province to approve every time a city wanted to remove a bike lane, add a traffic lane, remove a speed camera, or increase a speed limit?
@ Totally agree. We had the best transit system in North America. Won awards. But then we stopped building. One subway station every year or two since the 80’s would have made a huge difference. That’s what happens when people want lower taxes.
I am NOT a fan of Doug Ford, but I agree with him on bike lanes, they do NOT belong on major thoroughfares. Bike lanes are only suitable on certain streets in Toronto (Davenport is a good example). Otherwise they just plug things up, and become a hazard themselves. For example, on Bloor, where they have the ridiculous scheme of bike lanes beside the sidewalk, and THEN parking beside the bike lane, the first time I encountered this I almost got taken out by a bike, as I stepped into the bike lane, trying to make my way through the parked cars. A totally hazardous and ridiculous scheme.
Taking away lanes is not the solution. Bike lanes are good but not at the cost of the Rds. They need to expand on the sides. We are a car country and and that needs to be accepted..also lowering the speed limit doesn't stop the crazy people going 100...it only impeded the rest of us
Thank you so much Johnny! A really important video that does show how dangerous “alot of streets” are;poorly designed streets, and lack of properly designed streets for pedestrian safety.
How strange. We always considered High Park and Roncesville area the quietest place in Toronto.
Always good to see areas of the city we don’t get to often-thank you!
TTC still using the old subway trains on Line 2. Happy Holidays Johnny.
Yes the Bombardier T1 trains built in 1995-2001. My Uncle drives them
28:40 Car-centric design. Here they had one of those “Wait for Gap” signs, but replaced it with a proper “Stop for Pedestrians.”
Absolutely another beautiful sharing adventure piece of work and you doing such an amazing job ! .. gorgeous filming edition captured camera work and thanks again and stay safe my friend and best regards from Montreal QC ! ..
Merry Christmas 🎄 many blessings to all good citizens of Toronto!
Keep up the great Video's, I have tried other TO walking vids and so far I find yours Superior. (From Fredericton NB)
I drove on that road for the first time yesterday and it is really more like an urban highway than a road….quite dangerous as cars were speeding in both directions.
You are right about people who destroy cameras and property
Thank you for your videos
America wish a Merry Christmas to everyone 🇦🇷
19:52 You know that castle playground got arson in 2012?
We have speed cameras here we need them to keep our streets safe
We just started getting speed cameras in San Francisco ... I think it's a great idea because people drive so dangerously here.
good morning everyone
Dufferin is also one of the most dangerous streets in the city. But I DO NOT recommend bike lanes on Dufferin, it would be total insanity, making a bad street even worse, especially on the hill.
It was a kids park you saw through the view from Parkside. It’s a big wooden fortress. There is a sword in the stone there too. Cool little spot opposite the park zoo.
Good morning and merry Christmas
Although I do not live in Toronto any more I do know this road. My brother and sister-in-law live on Bloor just past the north end High Park gates so if they take the Gardiner to head back to the old country (Oakville) and come back into town, its either Kingsway, Windermere or Parkside. the other side of course has Indian Road, Symington and Roncesvalles but Parkside is a straight up down 2 lanes per side shot to Bloor. A dragstrip when not clogged. Another poster pointed out poor road design (correctly) and drivers with a sense of entitlement. Those two alone are a deadly combination. Stupid, crazy suggestion but a thought. Back in the day, the Le Mans 24 hour race (every June) had a straight known as the Mulsanne Straight and before changing it to what I am going to suggest, the cars could do 240mph (rare but a few did). And yes, there were many accidents and fatalities. They put in chicanes or lanes to where you had to slow down and brake before taking off again. It pissed the drivers off but it also saved lives. If you could somewhere somehow put 3 in from Lakeshore to Bloor this could help reduce the collisions and fatalities. Addendum: Watched the video again. (yes John we study what you video) and you can see the road is totally outdated. being from Windsor we understand crappy outdated roads and an ineffective municipal govt. a camera will not solve anything other than being seeing to be doing something or a glorified revenue band-aid. re-design and fix the damn road.
Here in Niagara same speeding and safety issues. It's so easy for todays motorists to speed with these new hi horsepower vehicles and so much distracted driving. I have to have my head on a swivel after a few close calls when I go for my walks.
Safety first lives can't be replaced
Great video and important warning about a dangerous street.
Careful big fella careful 🇨🇦
A few months ago I heard a story on the news about a teenage girl who was walking on these tracks 🙈
Being safe better than sorry there's no need for speed
Love the houses
lived their my whole life...ALWAYS felt safe
Good morning, Johnny! Be careful while walking this dangerous street there in Toronto. It looks unsafe here! Happy Holidays from London, England 🏴 🎅🎄🎁
Be safe
Good camera 📸 view
i check these time to time to see if i can see my bike that got stolen 😭
Good morning
Nobody is driving 40km/hr that’s for sure
When a speed limit is 50km/h and you get a ticket for 59 km/h I say good. . When you take into account the inaccuracies of speedometers we are left with about 5km/h of wiggle room. For our American adversaries that is like 3 mph
Even if bike lanes are hard to be placed or rejected with the current ontario bill, This street desperately needs a road diet like adding trees in the middle and turn it into a avenue. Even if Parkside still has 4 lanes, Visually it would look narrower so drivers slow down.
Lastly ,whenever I need to go North or South in this area as a bike messenger I just use Indian Road or even Roncesvalles for the scenery and shops.
$5M homes ..... 😮😮😠😠
To Johnny to torontonians to canadians with the best from America, if we are not here the Americans happy new year to canadians 🇦🇷
There are no incredibly dangerous streets in Toronto.
Happy New Year also America 🇦🇷
I’ve was born, and have lived here all of my 56 years….I’ve travelled all across the world, there no street in Toronto that isn’t dangerous! We have the traffic from hell…I live at Bloor and Parliment, yet it takes me over 30 minute to reach the on ramp to the Gardiner, only what? 2 kilometres away? I’ve been rear ended 3 times on the DVP alone, all by the Hurontario exit, and came back to to my parked car at the beaches to find my dumper ripped off by someone’s trailer hitch! That just the beginning…it’s maddening, our insurance goes up for things not our fault, thanks to brainless jerks who don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves!
fyi…It is High Park, not Hide Park.
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✌America!!
What do I like about big cities? Keeps everyone out of the country 🍺 CHEERS 🤠
America congrats, America as you know likes bigs buildings, Toronto has many of them for the Americans, at least for America, always wonderful the videos of Johnny for America we want the Americans, America the great, America with Johnny 🇦🇷
We love everything from the canadians the Americans, America is present, America enchanted oka, America back to Malvinas, Falklandas Americanas 🇦🇷
I can see the slide
First 2 minutes and I thought the same thing=2 trains within 2 minutes!...and I haven't lived in TO in almost 40 years, lol.
America BHA put the bike in order to clear a space for the movils, they from the American Authority, so we have bikes to replace in some sense the cars passing by on the main streets including streets while we´re not talking about the avenues the Americans which is another issue for the American Authority here in the American city, America in this places has everything digitalized since we are one of the ten American cities which are digital so the American can park using the web net on a number of streets basically instead of avenues the American Authority are worried about the main streets, the Americans are focusing, an American salute to the canadians which is American, supergreat is America 🇦🇷
I noticed a pay to park kiosk (or whatever they're called) on the side of the street where there's no parking. The street parking was on the other side of the street. That's odd. Also wondering... you said that street parking causes issues with traffic flow. In a residential area like this, where would residents be expected to park? Most of those houses didn't look like they had much off street parking available. Thanks for your vids! Always enjoy them.
Lots of people park on the streets clearly for a reason in this area but this guy clearly doesn't understand that
The houses have driveways or there are laneways at the back. The problem is that each house now has more than one car.
@@karagi101 very few of these houses have a driveway and there is no laneway for garages behind the houses either.
@@mark_spit7839 Most of the houses have a driveway or parking pad out front. Houses on corners have parking off the side streets. The rest have laneways off the side streets or via the north-south parallel road behind them. It’s easy to see using Google Streetview.
One wonders if it would be possible for communities where Il Duce Ford is threatening bike lane removal and a ban on further cycling infrastructure to mount class action lawsuits or even band together as a coalition to mount suits against the province? Unfortunately I am not a legal expert by any means but surely something can be done. Anyway keep up the good fight mate and thanks.
"trash humans" because they take down speed cameras? You're a very bright person!
America to united statesians too America wants America 🇦🇷
If we make the speed limits 10 kph there will be no lethal accidents.
But that defeats the purpose of driving which is to get to places quickly.
So we decrease speed limits, add a minute or two to every street and end up adding an extra half hour to a commute.
Like any pipe… you slow down the flow you will cause congestion.
BTW The province has jurisdiction. Cities are created by the provincial government and are subordinate to the province.
The province gives cities the powers they have and can take them away whenever they want.
Yeah the province can take away the city’s powers. Ultimately they could abolish municipal powers altogether. Do we want all of our local decisions being made at Queen’s Park?
@ Did I say I do? It’s normally best to leave local matters with local government. But sometimes local government decisions have to be overridden by the province when they determine they are detrimental.
What would you say if your local government approved a toxic dump a block away from your home? You’d probably want the province to step in and prevent it.
Reduced speed limits and other anti-car measures would be much more tolerable if we had the level of rapid public transit that one finds in many big European or Asian cities. Toronto has one of the worst average commute times.
@ Who decides which bike lanes are “detrimental?” Why is the province in a better position to make that determination than the municipality? We can’t just ask the province to step in whenever we disagree with a local decision.
What if we flipped it and required the province to approve every time a city wanted to remove a bike lane, add a traffic lane, remove a speed camera, or increase a speed limit?
@ Totally agree. We had the best transit system in North America. Won awards. But then we stopped building. One subway station every year or two since the 80’s would have made a huge difference.
That’s what happens when people want lower taxes.
The only thing that will fix Toronto traffic is fewer cars. Sorry folks.
Until they make transit not shit not gonna happen
I am NOT a fan of Doug Ford, but I agree with him on bike lanes, they do NOT belong on major thoroughfares. Bike lanes are only suitable on certain streets in Toronto (Davenport is a good example). Otherwise they just plug things up, and become a hazard themselves. For example, on Bloor, where they have the ridiculous scheme of bike lanes beside the sidewalk, and THEN parking beside the bike lane, the first time I encountered this I almost got taken out by a bike, as I stepped into the bike lane, trying to make my way through the parked cars. A totally hazardous and ridiculous scheme.
Taking away lanes is not the solution. Bike lanes are good but not at the cost of the Rds. They need to expand on the sides. We are a car country and and that needs to be accepted..also lowering the speed limit doesn't stop the crazy people going 100...it only impeded the rest of us
Parkside drive is not a good street the government should add bike lanes on parkside drive so people can bike more instead of taking the car.
@EthanKiz where's the space for that?
Thug Ford thinks he's Trump.
An American, America is PM 🇦🇷
We live in a city that belongs to the American future the Americans on a daily basis the Americans, America is magic very magic 🇦🇷
There're no such a thing as traffic car accidents - only collisions!