"It's unbelievably tragic," said Michael Longfield, executive director of Cycle Toronto. "This has been the deadliest year so far for people on bikes since Toronto's been counting these stats from the Vision Zero program."
The City of Toronto introduced its Vision Zero strategy in 2016 with the goal of reducing traffic-related deaths and serious injuries to zero after 78 people died the year prior.
Saneinejad says she can't speculate on why numbers have been trending in the wrong direction this year, even though data shows that fatal collisions have been on the decline generally since 2016.
This year's Vision Zero Road Safety Plan budget was the largest since the inception of the strategy at $79 million, up from $72 million last year.
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