Item - 2017.PW21.8

The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council authorize the installation of bicycle lanes on Renforth Drive between Eglinton Avenue West and Rathburn Road, as described in Attachment 1 - Amendments to Bicycle Lane Designations, to the report (April 25, 2017) from the General Manager, Transportation Services.

2.  City Council authorize the installation of contra-flow bicycle lanes on the following sections of roadway, as described in Attachment 1 - Amendments to Bicycle Lane Designations, to the report (April 25, 2017) from the General Manager, Transportation Services:

a.  Bellevue Avenue, northbound, between Wales Avenue and a point 40 metres south of College Street;

b.  Denison Avenue, northbound, between Queen Street West and Wales Avenue; and

c.  Wolseley Street, westbound, between Augusta Avenue and Denison Avenue.  

3.  City Council authorize the installation of an eastbound bicycle lane on Davenport Road, between Spadina Avenue and Madison Avenue, as described in Attachment 1 - Amendments to Bicycle Lane Designations, to the report (April 25, 2017) from the General Manager, Transportation Services.

4.  City Council amend the by-law to remove the westbound contra-flow bicycle lane and approve the installation of an eastbound contra-flow bicycle lane on Waterloo Avenue, between Dufferin Street and Gladstone Avenue, as described in Attachment 1 - Amendments to Bicycle Lane Designations, to the report (April 25, 2017) from the General Manager, Transportation Services.

5.  City Council enact the traffic and parking regulation amendments associated with Recommendations 1 to 4, above, as described in Attachment 2 - Amendments to Traffic and Parking Regulations, to the report (April 25, 2017) from the General Manager, Transportation Services.

The purpose of this report is to seek Council authority to install the following bicycle lanes that were identified as part of the Ten Year Cycling Network Plan adopted in principle by Council in June 2016:

-  Bicycle lanes on Renforth Avenue between Eglinton Avenue and Rathburn Drive and
-  Contra-flow bicycle lanes on Denison Avenue and Bellevue Avenue between College Street and Dundas Street West and Wolseley Street, between Augusta Avenue and Denison Avenue.
 

In addition, Council authority is sought to amend the following previous approvals for bicycle lanes:

-  Davenport Road to include an eastbound bicycle lane between Spadina Avenue and Madison Avenue, and
-  Waterloo Avenue between Dufferin Street to Gladstone Avenue to amend a westbound contra-flow bicycle lane to an eastbound contra-flow bicycle lane to reflect the recently approved conversion of this section of Waterloo Avenue from an eastbound one-way street to a westbound one-way street.
 

Subject to Council approval, Transportation Services proposes to install the above cycling facilities in 2017.