Item - 2024.IE15.12

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee:

1. Requested the General Manager, Transportation Services to report back to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee at its meeting on September 27, 2024 on:

a. Five impactful actions that will improve congestion in the City of Toronto within the next one to two years with an action plan for their accelerated implementation, this may include accelerating construction projects close to completion, adoption of new technologies, and / or any other measures that improve congestion;

b. Draft criteria and decision framework to be used by SEAT, the “Special Events Action Team”, to coordinate road closures, transit closures and major events scheduling;

c. A plan to improve the use of traffic modelling to make decisions related to closures and construction; and,

d. The status of requests in IE10.5 “Congestion Management Update Request”, including, but not limited to:

1. Advocacy towards implementing higher fines and automated technology for “Block the Box”; and

2. Assessment of road occupation congestion management recovery fee changes and peak hour delivery restrictions.

City staff will report back on Congestion Management and Construction Coordination at the September 2024 meeting.  I am writing to request that we request city staff to include additional information in these reports that demonstrate our commitment to taking congestion seriously.