Item - 2020.TE14.81

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1. Requested the Director, Transportation Planning and Infrastructure to develop and recommend additional improvements to the pilot protected intersection at Dundas Street East and Jones Avenue, including parking changes to improve sightlines or add additional protection.

2. Requested Transportation Services to evaluate the intersection of Dundas Street East and Jones Avenue as soon as the design is implemented and to bring forward recommendations for implementing similar changes to other intersections along Dundas Street East, including Logan Avenue, Carlaw Avenue, Greenwood Avenue and Coxwell Avenue (considering the development of Raindrop Plaza) by the September 15, 2020 meeting of Toronto and East York Community Council.

I am writing to you today regarding TE8.72 "Implementing Increased Cyclist Protection at Dundas and Jones." Transportation Services has begun to implement the increased protection, and the No-Right on Red is already in effect.

I understand from staff that the design will soon be fully implemented.

It is crucial that we immediately begin to evaluate how the intersection is working and work on rolling out designs that take what we've learned from Dundas and Jones to other intersections. I am asking for a particular focus on Dundas as it is the primary commuter lane for the east end.