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Brule Street Safety and Parking
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This petition is created by the residents of the Brule neighbourhood in Ward 4 of Toronto to review and revoke the street parking policy recently implemented to allow for permitted parking.
Concerns from residents include, but are not limited to:
- Brule is a dead end street, with only 1 entrance / exit (see attached map with the street highlighted in yellow)
- There are no sidewalks on the street, making the street the only walking path out of the tiny Brule neighbourhood, which houses many families with young children and active elderly residents who are often out walking
- 100% of residential homes have driveways in which residents are capable of parking, rendering any street parking permits for those who reside outside of the immediate neighbourhood.
Today, May 26th 2023, there was a resident fire at 62 Brule Gardens. Thankfully, there were no serious injuries, however the 911 response did require multiple fire trucks, police, and paramedics to attend the situation. With cars legally (permitted) parked on the street, and the emergency vehicles also on the street, there was no physical way to exit the neighbourhood, being it is a dead end street. In addition, emergency vehicles were required to use residential driveways, as the street was already occupied with these permitted parked cars. See picture attached of the scene today, which lasted for several hours. This presented an extremely dangerous situation where any additional emergency from one of the approximately 75 residential homes would have been blocked for a number of hours, making it impossible to have anyone enter or exit the street. It is the responsibility of our municipal government to ensure that policy decisions first and foremost protect the safety of Toronto residents, and in this instance the city has failed. We need the council to immediately review and revoke permitted parking in the Brule neighbourhood given the unique nature of this street as noted above.
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88 Brule Gardens On a day to day basis the street is unsafe for pedestrians as cars are parked on the one lane of the street leaving the pedestrians and cars, moving in and out of the area, to share the one remaining lane. In addition the 911 call this past weekend clearly demonstrated how unsafe the street is in the event of an emergency.
Technical width of the street should be reduced by the width of the sidewalk the city never provided. We have no choice but to walk on the street in competition with Fedex and multitudes of Amazon delivery vehicles who speed at will. There seems to be no parking enforcement or control. Cars have parked as long as 6 days and nights continuously in front of my house, which is the closest to Bloor Street and therefore the most popular for parking.
Correct this situation before there is any personal injury- remove permit parking -
87 Brule Gardens
12 Brule Gardens NA
Permitted parking creates a danger for pedestrians, and renders clearing the street of snow nearly impossible due to the bottleneck effect of overnight parked cars, making it a single lane one-way for a long section, and rendering access hazardous in bad weather.
25 Brule Gardens
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Brule Street Safety and Parking
Final supporters
This petition is created by the residents of the Brule neighbourhood in Ward 4 of Toronto to review and revoke the street parking policy recently implemented to allow for permitted parking.
Concerns from residents include, but are not limited to:
- Brule is a dead end street, with only 1 entrance / exit (see attached map with the street highlighted in yellow)
- There are no sidewalks on the street, making the street the only walking path out of the tiny Brule neighbourhood, which houses many families with young children and active elderly residents who are often out walking
- 100% of residential homes have driveways in which residents are capable of parking, rendering any street parking permits for those who reside outside of the immediate neighbourhood.
Today, May 26th 2023, there was a resident fire at 62 Brule Gardens. Thankfully, there were no serious injuries, however the 911 response did require multiple fire trucks, police, and paramedics to attend the situation. With cars legally (permitted) parked on the street, and the emergency vehicles also on the street, there was no physical way to exit the neighbourhood, being it is a dead end street. In addition, emergency vehicles were required to use residential driveways, as the street was already occupied with these permitted parked cars. See picture attached of the scene today, which lasted for several hours. This presented an extremely dangerous situation where any additional emergency from one of the approximately 75 residential homes would have been blocked for a number of hours, making it impossible to have anyone enter or exit the street. It is the responsibility of our municipal government to ensure that policy decisions first and foremost protect the safety of Toronto residents, and in this instance the city has failed. We need the council to immediately review and revoke permitted parking in the Brule neighbourhood given the unique nature of this street as noted above.
17 Comments
The net effect of street parking and no sidewalks has rendered Brule Gardens unsafe for residents, in particular those with small children in strollers and elderly using walkers and canes, who walk to Bloor street to get the subway or to shop at local stores. My sense from previous dealings with Councillor Perks on this issue is that he is not the least bit concerned by the safety issues expressed and will not be until there is a serious injury or fatality.
88 Brule Gardens On a day to day basis the street is unsafe for pedestrians as cars are parked on the one lane of the street leaving the pedestrians and cars, moving in and out of the area, to share the one remaining lane. In addition the 911 call this past weekend clearly demonstrated how unsafe the street is in the event of an emergency.
Technical width of the street should be reduced by the width of the sidewalk the city never provided. We have no choice but to walk on the street in competition with Fedex and multitudes of Amazon delivery vehicles who speed at will. There seems to be no parking enforcement or control. Cars have parked as long as 6 days and nights continuously in front of my house, which is the closest to Bloor Street and therefore the most popular for parking.
Correct this situation before there is any personal injury- remove permit parking -
87 Brule Gardens
12 Brule Gardens NA
Permitted parking creates a danger for pedestrians, and renders clearing the street of snow nearly impossible due to the bottleneck effect of overnight parked cars, making it a single lane one-way for a long section, and rendering access hazardous in bad weather.
25 Brule Gardens
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The net effect of street parking and no sidewalks has rendered Brule Gardens unsafe for residents, in particular those with small children in strollers and elderly using walkers and canes, who walk to Bloor street to get the subway or to shop at local stores. My sense from previous dealings with Councillor Perks on this issue is that he is not the least bit concerned by the safety issues expressed and will not be until there is a serious injury or fatality.