Item - 2025.IE22.4

The General Manager, Transportation Services recommends that:

1. City Council adopt the following policies as detailed in Attachment 2 to the report (May 29, 2025) from the General Manager, Transportation Services:

a. Pedestrian Crossing Protection Device Justification Policy;

b. Crosswalk Marking Policy;

c. All-Way Stop Sign Control Justification Policy; and

d. Traffic Control Signal Justification Policy.

2. City Council authorize the installation of a traffic control signal at the following locations with existing pedestrian crossovers:

a. Dundas Street East and Bond Street;

b. Dundas Street East and George Street;

c. Dundas Street East and Pembroke Street;

d. King Street East and Ontario Street;

e. King Street East and Sackville Street;

f. Queen Street East and Ontario Street;

g. Bayview Avenue and Parkhurst Boulevard / Soudan Avenue;

h. Beecroft Road and a point 165 metres south of Park Home Avenue;

i. Warden Avenue a point approximately 396 metres north of Firvalley Court;

j. Weston Road and Oxford Drive;

k. Weston Road and Clouston Avenue; and

l. York Mills Road and Birchwood Avenue.

3. Subject to approval of Recommendation 2 above, City Council authorize removal of the existing pedestrian crossovers at the listed locations in conjunction with the installation of traffic control signals.

4. City Council authorize the installation of a traffic control signal at the intersection of Bayview Avenue and Sutherland Drive.

5. City Council approve the changes to the City of Toronto Road Classification Criteria as detailed in Attachment 4 to the report (May 29, 2025) from the General Manager, Transportation Services.

6. City Council rescind the Community Safety Zone designations and / or designate the Community Safety Zones and authorize the amendments to Schedule XXXIII to City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, generally as set out in Attachment 5 to the report (May 29, 2025) from the General Manager, Transportation Services.

7. City Council reduce the speed limit from 50 kilometres per hour to 40 kilometres per hour on Forest Manor Road between Parkway Forest Drive (south intersection) and Parkway Forest Drive (north intersection).

8. City Council designate a 40 kilometres per hour speed limit on Avenue Road between Bloor Street West and Lonsdale Road.

9. City Council authorize the General Manager, Transportation Services, to re-negotiate, enter into, and execute agreements, as may be required, with Toronto District School Board and Toronto Catholic District School Board, to receive funding in the amount of $320,000CAD annually for three years, from the Transportation Services operating budget, to continue the expansion of the Active and Safe Routes to School program, on such terms and conditions satisfactory to the General Manager, Transportation Services and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

10. City Council authorize the General Manager, Transportation Services, to re-negotiate, enter into, and execute agreements, as may be required, with Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) to amend the December 17, 2021 agreement titled FUNDING AGREEMENT FOR ACTIVE AND SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM in order to ensure unspent funds can be used to carry forward to future years, on such terms and conditions satisfactory to the General Manager, Transportation Services and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

11. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary bills to give effect to City Council's decision and City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make any necessary clarifications, refinements, minor modifications, technical amendments, or by-law amendments as may be identified by the City Solicitor or the General Manager, Transportation Services in order to give effect to Parts 1 through 10, above.

Since the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan was first adopted in 2016, the City has made great strides in implementing the core tenant of Vision Zero: the design and operation of the road system should be approached through a Safe System lens to ensure that the inevitable mistakes we all make as human beings do not result in the loss or significant alteration of anyone’s life due to potentially preventable collisions. The Vision Zero Road Safety Plan was developed through data-driven decision making and has incrementally grown over the past nine years to provide extensive, proactive, systemic, and directed initiatives targeted to ensure the City is making progress toward its commitment to Vision Zero.

The Vision Zero Road Safety Plan identifies pedestrians as vulnerable road users, exposed to a greater risk of injury in a collision and therefore in greater need of protection against such collisions. This report recommends updates to four policies that improve pedestrian safety:

-  Pedestrian Crossing Protection Device Justification Policy;

-  Traffic Control Signal Justification Policy;

-  All-Way Stop Sign Control Justification Policy; and

-  Crosswalk Marking Policy.

This report provides a status update on the creation of new guidelines intended to improve pedestrian crossing protection and recommends thirteen new traffic control signals to provide improved pedestrian crossing protection, one of which will be constructed as part of adjacent development. An overview of trends in pedestrian serious injuries and fatalities is also included in this report.

In addition, this report seeks approval from City Council on the following:

-  Minor update to the City's Road Classification Criteria;

-  Eight (8) new Community Safety Zones and updated boundaries to thirty-three (33) existing Community Safety Zones to improve safety through reduced vehicle speeds and enforced through the installation of Automated Speed Enforcement Cameras;

-  Reducing the speed limit on two roadways - Forest Manor Road and Avenue Road - to ensure consistent application of speed limits across the City of Toronto; and

-  Renewing funding to support the Active and Safe Routes to School program run by the Toronto District School Board and Toronto Catholic District School Board.

Since 2016, the Vision Zero annual budget and spend rate has increased incrementally, reflecting the demand for improved road safety and the capacity to deliver these improvements. The 2025 Council-adopted budget of $99.1 million - $31.7 million in capital and $67.4 million in operating - is the largest annual budget for the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan since inception and further demonstrates the commitment of City Council to Vision Zero and Transportation Services’ ability to deliver the varied aspects of the work.

Funding to continue the expansion of the Active and Safe Routes to School program has already been included in the 2025 Operating Budget for Transportation Services.

With the adoption of policies as noted in recommendation Number 1, the number of new traffic signal devices to be approved and delivered per year might increase. Future funding requirements for capital infrastructure investments and the associated operating impacts arising from the implementation of the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan will be included in the future budget submission processes for Transportation Services.

The delivery of traffic control signals as noted in recommendation Numbers 2 and 4 are estimated at $3.0 million and have been included in the 2025-2034 Capital Budget and Plan for Transportation Services, as identified under Health and Safety category.

The Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer has reviewed this report and agrees with the financial impact information.