It’s official. Charges will not be laid against the driver who struck and killed Toronto architect Roger du Toit while he was riding his bike up Wrentham May 19, police confirmed to NOW on Monday.

According to 53 Division staff sergeant Matt Moyer, du Toit “ran the stop sign” at Wrentham when he was hit by a Toyota 4Runner driven by a 43-year-old woman travelling east on Roxborough. He died in hospital from his injuries May 31.

It’s unclear what role speed may have played in the accident. Two more stop signs were only installed at the “T” intersection last week. But drivers seemed not to notice on Thursday afternoon.

Those buzzing through the neighbourhood during the evening rush to get to Yonge, or Mount Pleasant or further south to Crescent, more often than not failed to stop at the signs. Some slowed to roll through. Others seemed completely oblivious to the new traffic measures.

@RespectTO @nowtoronto Motorists driving obliviously thru new stop sign at corner where cyclist #RogerduToit killed. pic.twitter.com/4dcg39y5VV — Enzo DiMatteo (@enzodimatteo) June 11, 2015 Cars were running new stop signs at Roxborough intersection where cyclist Roger du Toit was killed, the day after they were installed.

“They go right through as if the signs are not even there,” said one neighbour who lives directly across the street where one of the new signs on Roxborough was installed.

Lines painted on the road since Thursday have reportedly improved compliance. But questions remain about the incident that led to du Toit’s death and bureaucratic snafu that caused a three-month delay before the signs – approved by Toronto and East York Community Council last February – finally went up.

The official reason for the delay: that work is typically done in spring after the ground has thawed and the city was waiting for gas and hydro utilities for clearance. But neither of the signs put up at the intersection last week required any digging to install. One required a stake in the ground. The other was affixed to an existing pole.

Hamish Wilson Post for new stop sign at Roxborough. Why did this take three months to install?

Could stop signs, had they been installed sooner, prevented du Toit’s death?

It’s difficult not to draw that conclusion.

Up until city crews showed up with new signs last week, traffic at the three-way, “T” intersection was regulated by a lone stop sign for vehicles coming north along Wrentham.

Whether or not speed was a factor is du Toit’s death is another lingering question. Locals had been agitating as far back as five years ago for more stop signs, but the intersection never met the traffic numbers required until last year, according to a city transportation services staff report.

The speed limit on Roxborough is 40 km/h. The chances of du Toit surviving an impact at that speed would have been significantly less than a car travelling at 30 km/h, the speed limit the city’s chief medical officer of health recommended for all residential streets in 2012.

Have the streets of Toronto become meaner?

Toronto has the highest car-bike collision rate in the country. That’s no secret. But it’s been a particularly deadly Bike Month for cyclists. The body count so far including du Toit: three dead, two of those in accidents involving drivers who left the scene. Both drivers in those incidents have been charged with criminal negligence causing death, among other charges.

One of those charged, a 22-year-old woman, was allegedly driving drunk while her license was under suspension. The cyclist in that fatal crash was reportedly knocked 30 metres.

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