Item - 2023.TE7.65

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1.  Designated areas in Ward 12 as a designated area with an associated speed limit of 30 kilometres per hour, with the exception of specified excluded highways or bridges, and amended the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, generally as outlined in Attachment 1 to the report (August 30, 2023) from the Director, Project Design and Management, Transportation Services.

This staff report is about speed limit reductions for which Community Council has delegated authority to make a final decision, provided that it is not amended so that it varies with City policy or by-laws.

The Vision Zero Road Safety Plan Speed Management Strategy focuses on how higher speeds contribute to higher risk of serious injuries and fatalities, and that setting lower speed limits is a key tool for reducing operating speeds on Toronto's roadways. The Vision Zero Speed Management Strategy includes a program for reducing speed limits on local roads, as defined in the City's Road Classification System, and public lanes or public alleys, to 30 kilometres per hour on a neighbourhood basis. With this approach the City is no longer required to sign every individual street within that designated area but only the entry and exit points to / from the designated area where speed limits change and any internal roads with a different speed limit.

In 2015, Toronto and East York Community Council reduced all local roadways with speed limits of 50 kilometres per hour and 40 kilometres per hour to 30 kilometres per hour within the Toronto and East York Community Council area.

The purpose of this report is to recommend area-based speed limit reductions to 30 kilometres per hour on public lanes or public alleys and local roads in the parts of Ward 12 that were not reduced to 30 kilometres per hour in 2015. These areas were not added to the Toronto and East York Community Council area until 2018. This will complete the reduction of speed limits on all local roads in the Toronto and East York Community Council area to 30 kilometres per hour. This measure supports the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan Speed Management Strategy.