TORONTO, Ont. – The city’s chief medical officer of health’s recommendation to reduce the speed limit on some Toronto streets goes before the Toronto Public Health and the Board of Health, Monday.

Dr. David McKeown has a study in-hand citing evidence that people walking are far less likely to be killed or injured for every 10-kilometre reduction below 60 kilometres an hour.

So he is proposing that all residential street limits be reduced to 30 kilometres an hour from 40 kilometres an hour, and that all speed limits on other streets be dropped to 40 kilometres an hour from an average of 50 kilometres an hour.

The report also recommends other traffic-calming measures, including pedestrian signals that would turn green before the traffic light does and bicycle boxes that would jut out from the curb, which would allow cyclists to turn left or right in front of traffic.

Police said 2,000 pedestrians are struck by a vehicle in Toronto each year.

The head of the Public Works Committee is urging the doctor to quote, “stick to his knitting” unless he’s after a job in the transportation department.

The report will go before city council on May 8.