In Toronto, the capital of the canadian province of Ontario, the government adopted a decision on the extension of sidewalks on some streets. This is to ensure that pedestrians were able to observe the rules of social distancing in epidemics of a new type of coronavirus. The authorities heeded to the requests of citizens and begin to bring these changes to life point, starting with the most narrow and loaded streets.
As "victims" for additional space will make the curb of roads and lanes, specially reserved for public transport. The roadway will be fenced off from roads so that pedestrians could safely navigate the roadway.
The attention of the city authorities to the problem with distancing in Toronto, was attracted to the study by the research firm Ratio.City that published a map of the city, clearly demonstrating the narrow pedestrian zone of the city. It turned out that more than two thirds of city sidewalks no wider than 2.5 metres, which does not allow pedestrians to disperse to a safe from each other distance.
This problem also drew the attention of the citizens themselves, sometimes in a very unusual way. So, in mid-April, a resident of Toronto, Daniel Rothstein, a specialist in town planning, invented the "machine to distancing" – ring with a diameter of 4 meters, opoaryuse the human body. Walk in that ring around the city has demonstrated that to keep his distance of 2 meters in Toronto is quite difficult.
