Saskatoon city council to discuss College Drive road safety review
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A safety review of the intersection at College Drive and Wiggins Avenue is being presented at Saskatoon city council Wednesday.
A road safety review for Saskatoon’s College Drive and Wiggins Avenue intersection is being brought forward to city council on Wednesday, with several recommendations on the table.
It has been almost a year since Natasha Fox died at the intersection after being struck by a vehicle on her way to work, which was the incident that spurred this review.
Fox died in May 2023 and since then there has been a strong outcry in the community to bring forth road safety measures for cyclists in the city.
CIMA+ was the third-party organization brought in to put together the review, with it saying that the intersection is a critical link between eastern residential neighbourhoods and the central business district.
“College Drive and Wiggins Avenue is the most biked and second most walked intersection recorded in the city. Mitigation measures are designed to reflect this,” the report read.
It compared collision rates reported from SGI back in 2021 that looked at the 15 intersections across Saskatoon, Regina and Prince Albert with the highest collisions.
“The collision rates in SGI’s 2021 report for Saskatoon ranged from 49.5 collisions / 10 million vehicles at Circle Drive and Preston Avenue South to 6.3 collisions / 10 million vehicles at 8th Street East and McKercher Drive. The 2022 collision rate at College Drive and Wiggins Avenue is estimated to be 6.4 collisions / 10 million vehicles based on the 24-hour count conducted earlier this year.”
The report highlighted several findings and issues seen while observing the intersection in October 2023, but offered multiple countermeasures that could be implemented, citing examples seen in other cities like Honolulu and New York.
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