Item - 2020.TE13.59

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1. Reduced the speed limit from 40 km/h to 30 km/h on Rowntree Avenue, between Old Weston Road and Prescott Avenue.

 
2. Reduced the speed limit from 50 km/h to 30 km/h on Chambers Avenue, between Rowntree Avenue and Rogers Road.

 
3. Reduced the speed limit from 50 km/h to 30 km/h on Rosethorn Avenue, between a point 38.6 metres north of Rowntree Avenue and Rogers Road, and from 40 km/h to 30 km/h on Rosethorn Avenue, between Rockwell Avenue and a point 38.6 metres north of Rowntree Avenue.

4. Reduced the speed limit on Turnberry Avenue, from 40 km/h to 30 km/h, between Old Weston Road and Silverthorn Avenue.

Residents contacted my office seeking to better protect vulnerable road users on streets within the Silverthorn neighborhood area, where the speed limit is currently either 40km/h or 50km/h on area streets. Vision Zero 2.0 will eventually lower the speed limit on all local streets to 30 km/h, however implementation is planned on a ward-by-ward basis over five years starting in 2021. Area residents, including parents at the nearby General Mercer Junior Public School, requested that action be taken immediately. My response to residents is to request that speed limits be reduced in these areas through Community Council. Therefore, my purpose with this motion is to recommend that the speed limits on Rowntree Avenue, Chambers Avenue, Rosethorn Avenue and Turnberry Avenue be reduced to 30 km/h.