{"id":543776,"date":"2026-03-18T04:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:23:40","slug":"calgary-councillor-looks-to-make-northeast-intersection-safer-it-is-dangerous-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543776\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary councillor looks to make northeast intersection safer: \u2018It is dangerous\u2019 – Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Calgary city councillor is looking to the city for options in order to make a Northeast Calgary<\/a> intersection safer a week after a child was involved in a hit and run in the area.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Twelve-year-old Bentley St. John was on his way to school on Tuesday, March 10, when he was hit by a white vehicle in a marked crosswalk at Taradale Drive and Taravista Way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to do something because yes, it is dangerous,\u201d says Ward 5 Coun. Raj Dhaliwal.<\/p>\n

During a meeting at city hall on Tuesday, Dhaliwal asked administration to tell the \u201cresidents of Taradale and Ward 5 what tangible and safety measures, interventions can be immediately deployed to enhance the pedestrian safety at this intersection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Operational services general manager Doug Morgan responded by saying that there are no records of any collisions at the intersection over the past 19 years based on the collision database.<\/p>\n

Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a collision in November 2023 within the playground zone,\u201d he said. \u201cWe took action by installing \u2026 physical traffic calming measures to slow the traffic down. We did look at this intersection. There are marked crosswalks, as we saw in the video, and this was a blatant error or mistake by the driver as well as the drivers that drove by.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Get<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n

Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.<\/p>\n

Dhaliwal said he was surprised to see that there was no data for that specific intersection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does that mean now? Does that mean that people are not reporting enough? Maybe they\u2019re reactive to an incident, but we got to be more proactive,\u201d said Dhaliwal.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Click<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:52
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalgary parents, experts concerned after passersby don\u2019t stop for hit-and-run victim\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas says despite there not being any past issues at the intersection, there\u2019s still the need to double down on enforcement, engineering and education.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMore on Traffic
\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n

Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a massive issue for Calgarians. We are likely to be seeing in this year the most dangerous year ever in Calgary\u2019s history to be a pedestrian,\u201d Farkas says.<\/p>\n

According to statistics from Calgary police, there were nearly 80 pedestrians hit in the city between Jan 1 and Feb. 28 of this year. Those numbers, however, don\u2019t include pedestrians hit during the month of March including Bentley.<\/p>\n

During a media scrum, Dhaliwal told reporters that his request for pedestrian lights at Tarra Lake Way and Taradale Drive last year was fulfilled, and hopes to get another at the intersection of Taradale Drive and Taravista Way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to do a proper control there, and maybe pedestrian lights \u2026 will be a solution,\u201d says Dhaliwal.<\/p>\n

Bentley\u2019s uncle, Garry Sinclair, tells Global News that he doesn\u2019t think having pedestrian lights will reduce the number of pedestrians being hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it would make a difference. I\u2019ve been at intersections with streetlights (and when) it\u2019s telling you to cross, you start crossing and people still are ignoring it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Sinclair says Bentley is still at home recovering with a broken leg.<\/p>\n

Calgary police say they are still looking for the suspect vehicle that was involved in the hit and run.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t&copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Calgary city councillor is looking to the city for options in order to make a Northeast Calgary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,212121,48,212122,1890],"class_list":["post-543776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-hit-and-run","tag-canada","tag-northeast-calgary","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}