Item - 2019.NY8.50

North York Community Council:

1. Requested City Staff to report on the development of a comprehensive Construction Traffic Safety Management Plan with the specific focus on trying to mitigate construction traffic infiltration on City side streets and in Ward 8 in proximity to Yonge and Eglinton, where there is a concentration of high density development construction and the building of the Eglinton crosstown, as per the following:

a. traffic and Pedestrian Safety Plan for all major construction sites in the Yonge-Eglinton area;

b. requesting that the Province institute a Safe City Driving training for all heavy construction truck drivers;

c. to implement full-time pedestrian crossing guards or paid duty Police Officers on site at all major construction projects, paid for by developers, in the Yonge-Eglinton Ward 8 area;

d. install full-time Crossing Personnel or paid Duty Officers at all intersections on Yonge Street from Castlefield Avenue to the Kay Gardner Beltline Trail, paid for by Developers;

e. immediate implementation of a Construction Traffic Safety Management for the Yonge-Eglinton Ward 8 area; and

f. the need for Toronto Police and Parking Enforcement to undertake an immediate comprehensive traffic and parking control Blitz in the Yonge-Eglinton Ward 8 area. 

Request for City Staff to develop a comprehensive Construction Traffic Safety Management Plan in the Yonge-Eglinton area.