Item - 2024.EP8.2

The Board of Governors of Exhibition Place:

1. Approved the final WSP recommendations in Appendix A to the report (January 19, 2024), from the Chief Executive Officer, Exhibition Place.

2. Authorized the Chief Executive Officer, Exhibition Place to finish Phase 2 Feasibility Study and initiate the design phase based on the WSP Phase 1 recommendations and the outcome recommendations from Phase 2 Feasibility Study and report back to the Board.

Sharon Sterling, Principal Consultant, and Lachlan Fraser, Senior Transportation Planner, WSP, gave a presentation on Transportation Network and Event Logistics for Exhibition Place.

Urban transportation is undergoing major transformations, driven in part by the emergence of new technologies. These changes are putting pressure on public streets to be used in new and unanticipated ways, while also presenting potential opportunities to improve the transportation system.

This report provides the findings and recommendations of the Multi-Modal Transportation and Event Operations and Logistics Study to the Board for consideration. Both studies provide recommendations that enhance pedestrian connectivity to and within Exhibition Place while optimizing event logistics for our tenants and show clients.

Attached in Appendix A of this report are WSP's findings and recommendations regarding the design of a reimagined pedestrian and event operations and logistics network.

Staff from WSP will deliver a presentation to the Board that summarizes the study and

engagement activity and outline the design recommendations at its meeting of February 2, 2024.