Item - 2025.DM29.2

Tracking Status

  • City Council adopted this item on April 23 and 24, 2025 with amendments.

DM29.2 - Requiring Metrolinx to Develop a Heavy Truck Safety Plan - by Councillor Paula Fletcher, seconded by Deputy Mayor Ausma Malik

Decision Type:
ACTION
Status:
Amended
Wards:
All

City Council Decision

City Council on April 23 and 24, 2025, adopted the following:

 

1. City Council direct the City Manager to request Metrolinx to develop a comprehensive Heavy Truck Safety Plan to the satisfaction of the General Manager, Transportation Services, that is shared publicly by Metrolinx, and includes enforcement measures, monitoring protocols, and a mechanism for residents to report concerns, and to share the finalized plan with the local Councillors and interested community members along the Ontario Line alignment by May 12, 2025.

 

2. City Council direct the General Manager, Transportation Services, to include the requirement for a Heavy Truck Safety Plan as a permit condition in Transportation Permits issued to Metrolinx Ontario Line contractors in Ward 14 and Ward 15 and other affected Wards subsequent to May 12, 2025.

City Council Decision Advice and Other Information

City Council considered the following Items together:

 

DM29.2 headed “Requiring Metrolinx to Develop a Heavy Truck Safety Plan - by Councillor Paula Fletcher, seconded by Deputy Mayor Ausma Malik”; and

 

TE20.40 headed “Transit Priority Measures to Support Streetcar Service Diversions during King Street East and Church Street Intersection Closures”.

Background Information (City Council)

Communications (City Council)

(April 23, 2025) E-mail from Nicole Corrado (DM.New)

Motions (City Council)

1 - Motion to Amend Item moved by Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin (Carried)

That:

 

1. City Council amend Recommendation 2 by adding the words "Ward 15, and other affected Wards" after the words "Ward 14" so that it now reads as follows:

 

2. City Council direct the General Manager, Transportation Services, to include the requirement for a Heavy Truck Safety Plan as a permit condition in Transportation Permits issued to Metrolinx Ontario Line contractors in Ward 14, Ward 15, and other affected Wards subsequent to April 11, 2025.


2 - Motion to Amend Item moved by Councillor Paula Fletcher (Carried)

That City Council amend Recommendations 1 and 2 by deleting the words "April 11" and replacing them with the words "May 12" so that Recommendations 1 and 2 now read as follows:

 

1. City Council direct the City Manager to request Metrolinx to develop a comprehensive Heavy Truck Safety Plan to the satisfaction of the General Manager, Transportation Services, that is shared publicly by Metrolinx, and includes enforcement measures, monitoring protocols, and a mechanism for residents to report concerns, and to share the finalized plan with the local Councillors and interested community members along the Ontario Line alignment by May 12, 2025.

 

2. City Council direct the General Manager, Transportation Services, to include the requirement for a Heavy Truck Safety Plan as a permit condition in Transportation Permits issued to Metrolinx Ontario Line contractors in Ward 14 subsequent to May 12, 2025.


Motion to Adopt Item as Amended (Carried)
Source: Toronto City Clerk at www.toronto.ca/council