Item - 2025.IE26.5

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommend that:

1. City Council authorize the General Manager, Transportation Services to negotiate, enter into, and execute a renewed agreement with Ministry of Transportation of Ontario for operation and maintenance activities associated with traffic control signals, traffic signage and zone painting on Ministry of Transportation of Ontario expressway ramps intersecting with City of Toronto major arterial roads, generally as set out in the report (November 20, 2025) from the Acting General Manager, Transportation Services, and on such other terms and conditions satisfactory to the General Manager, Transportation Services, and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

The purpose of this report is to seek the authorization for renewal of an agreement between the City of Toronto and the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, which formalizes and clarifies both parties' respective responsibilities for the operation and maintenance of Ministry of Transportation of Ontario's traffic control devices (i.e., traffic control signals,  traffic signage and pavement markings) that are owned by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario at on-off ramps intersecting the city's major arterial roads, at the Ministry's cost.

The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario and the City have been operating under an existing agreement which came into effect between the two parties on July 1, 2014, and expired on June 30, 2024. This existing agreement requires necessary revisions to recognize changing technology, articulating clearer expectations of both parties and adjustment to the term of the agreement.

The term of the previous agreement was for ten (10) years. Under the renewed agreement the term would be for one (1) year from the date of its execution by both parties, with automatic yearly renewals. Either party may terminate this agreement at any time by serving written notice on the other party.  However, termination would not become effective until such time as the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario has made alternative arrangements for the operation and maintenance of the traffic control signals, as well as traffic signage and zone painting at the on-off ramps intersecting the city's major arterial and covered under this agreement.