Hours earlier, on Birchmount Road, another pedestrian died, a man of 56. Murder stains neighbourhoods for years. But pedestrians’ deaths are forgotten. They stand unmarked. We don’t usually learn ...

The 43-kilometre road descends some 1,800 metres with grades as steep as 18 per cent and there are no guard rails to prevent motorists from going over the edge.

During the years ahead, other roadways ascended the hill, Avenue Road being one of them. Gazing south on Avenue Road from Edmund Road (south of St. Clair Avenue West) in 1910.

Every winter, Byron’s “snake hill” becomes a real-life bumper-car ride. Vehicles slip and slide as they navigate the short, winding stretch of Commissioners Road east of Byron Baseline Road.