Aggressive driving is not going to be solved by another sign telling people to slow down.
We need to be much more deliberate.
My plan would focus on three things:
1. Create an Aggressive Driving Hotspot Map.
Use collision data, speed data and resident complaints to identify the roads and intersections where dangerous driving is actually happening.
2. Create a Self-Enforcing Streets Program.
When speeds on a residential or collector road consistently exceed defined safety thresholds, that should automatically trigger a review for traffic-calming measures: speed tables, narrowed lanes, raised crossings, better intersection design and other proven tools.
3. Target enforcement where it matters most.
Brampton, Peel Region and Peel Regional Police should coordinate enforcement on the arterial roads and intersections where aggressive driving and serious collisions are concentrated — instead of spreading resources thinly across the entire city.
The goal cannot simply be to write more tickets.
We need to identify the roads where dangerous driving is happening, redesign the ones that encourage it, and concentrate enforcement where engineering alone cannot solve the problem.
Safer roads require more than asking drivers to behave differently.
Sometimes we need to build streets that make dangerous driving harder in the first place.
Four years. One city. Let’s build.