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Dear Kanny,
I’m writing to review my visit in January 2018 with you at city hall when I stopped in to show you a video of my concerns on Ewen Street.
At the time I had identified several concerns related to safety of pedestrians crossing Ewen street.
1. Lack of visibility due to too many turn signs
2. Lack of visibility due to the yellow and black signs being to big and too many
3. Sight lines of pedestrians were restricted due to cement barriers
4. Sight line of pedestrians restricted due to choice of plant and shrubs on the corners and boulevards.
From our conversation you mentioned a few items
1. Industry standards for signage
2. Vegetation being identified as a problem
3. Follow up evaluation would be conducted with the engineers sometime in the next few weeks of our meeting
4. Improvements to be suggested for the west side of Ewan.
I heard only recently that there was a pedestrian hit on the East side of Ewan in June. I’m also aware of one accident that totaled a car as someone tried to turn left on to Ewan. Hopefully you have more stats on the other incidences that I am not aware of.

You can appreciate my concern as school will be starting in the next week, the rain has started and the days are getting shorter.

When I compare the vegetation this year to last year I do not see any improvements to the sight lines for the cars and pedestrians. I expect this would have been the easiest and most cost efficient improvement that could have been made by the city to ensure safety. The signage is obscuring visibility and I would hope safety would come before industry standards as there are too many turn signs and reflectors on Ewen from the Community Centre to the Street lights going East..Please look at the photo's 1-3 in order to see how easily a child in grade 3 could be hit. You can not see her in picture 1 and 2.
(looks like I can only upload one picture please respond for more pictures from today)