Most drivers get handed a ticket from a police officer when they break traffic rules, but some in Toronto are now being handed yellow or red cards by a fake soccer referee for their driving behaviour.
“I’m trying to basically transfer a soccer match into an intersection and treat the pedestrians and cyclists as one team and the cars as the other team,” Feis explained, adding one team is unofficially called Richmond FC while the other Peter Street Ramblers. “The way I figured this out is … if the walk signal is on, if you’re supposed to walk as a pedestrian and there’s a car on the crosswalk, I would go out and give them a yellow card as a caution.
Instant red cards are handed to motorists who are parked in the middle of the intersection, blocking the flow of traffic or cyclists trying to get by, Feis added.“They sort of look at me, sort of shrug their shoulders, ‘What do you want me to do?’ Well, don’t be in the crosswalk, but overall, it’s all been very, very supportive, especially from pedestrians and cyclists,” Feis said.
, as the city was ranked seventh globally for it with commuters losing an average of 118 hours on roads and highways to congestion in 2022.
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