^ When was the Royal Gardens renewal done? I'm with you, that should have been a core focus in the residential neighbourhood renewal program ages ago.
When my parent's neighbourhood was done around five years ago, there wasn't a sidewalk on either side of the street, so the City added one in via taking space from the road. Suddenly, the longstanding problem of people driving way too fast down their street was gone.
Meanwhile, the street one block over had the same issues with people speeding through, but they already had a sidewalk so during renewals the City never reduced the road width. They are still having speeding issues to date. Go figure.