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RSS FeedsA Scarborough parish is finally getting a traffic light after priest says 5 people died crossing in front of the church
(The Star Travel)

 
 

6 october 2019 17:39:22

 
A Scarborough parish is finally getting a traffic light after priest says 5 people died crossing in front of the church
(The Star Travel)
 


For Rev. Xavier De Pinto, the new traffic signal being installed outside his Scarborough church is literally the answer to his congregation’s prayers.The city agreed last year to install the lights, but only after traffic on Lawrence Avenue took a terrible toll on De Pinto’s community — leading him and a busload of parishioners to pack a community council meeting and call for change.According to the clergyman, since 1984, five people have been killed while crossing in front of Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church, which is on the south side of Lawrence, just east of Victoria Park Avenue. “It was something that was needed,” said De Pinto, recounting how he and his congregation advocated for the safety measure. “I think it was through prayer too, and activism of our community.” The section of Lawrence in front of the church, which is across from Townley Avenue, is a seven-lane road with a middle left-turn lane where pedestrians stop as they attempt to cross. “It’s like a highway,” De Pinto said.For years the posted speed limit has been 60 kilometres an hour, although council voted in July to decrease the limit on a long stretch of Lawrence, including the section in front of Precious Blood, to 50 km/h.There is a TTC bus stop across the street from the church, which is about 190 metres from the nearest signalized crossing at Victoria Park to the west, and 220 metres from the lights at Pharmacy Avenue to the east.De Pinto said many of his congregants, including those who are older, take the TTC to church, and the most direct way to get there from the bus stop is to cross the seven lanes of traffic.The priest, who has been at the church for about three years, said he first learned about his congregants’ traffic safety concerns from the local chapter of the Catholic Women’s League. After he announced from the pulpit that he would try to get a traffic signal installed, parishioners started to come f ...


 
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