Item - 2025.MM35.15
Tracking Status
- City Council adopted this item on December 16 and 17, 2025 without amendments.
MM35.15 - Speeding Up Light Rail Transit and Streetcars - by Mayor Olivia Chow, seconded by Councillor Jamaal Myers
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Adopted
- Wards:
- All
City Council Decision
City Council on December 16 and 17, 2025, adopted the following:
1. City Council direct the City Manager, working with Metrolinx and the Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Transit Commission, to advance implementation of more aggressive, active transit signal priority at intersections along surface portions of the Line 5 Eglinton and Line 6 Finch West, subject to contractual and legal obligations, and to provide an update on progress in the first quarter of 2026.
2. City Council direct the City Manager, working with the Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Transit Commission, to report back in the first quarter of 2026 with a plan, including costs and staffing requirements, to implement further measures that improve streetcar network speed and reliability, including signal timing adjustments, a more aggressive transit signal priority policy, deploying traffic agents at key intersections to prevent blocked streetcars, and recommendations for removing on-street parking and restricting left turns during high-peak periods on key streetcar routes.
3. City Council direct the City Manager, working with the Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Transit Commission, to report back in the first quarter of 2026 with a plan, including costs and staffing requirements, to expedite transit signal priority activations at intersections on the surface transit network where the required technology is not currently installed.
Background Information (City Council)
Communications (City Council)
(December 11, 2025) E-mail from
Cameron MacLeod, CodeRedTO
(MM.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-200877.pdf
(December 11, 2025) E-mail from Andrew Zhang (MM.Supp)
(December 11, 2025) E-mail from Vicky Huang (MM.Supp)
(December 12, 2025) E-mail from Yavuz Topbas (MM.Supp)
(December 13, 2025) Letter from Andrew Pulsifer, Executive Director, TTCriders (MM.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-200962.pdf
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Gabriel Bissell-Barahona (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Daniel Fernandes (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Alex Bonenfant (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Jonathan George (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Kenny Young (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Varun Garg (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Simon Zhang (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Vince Bozic (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Marko Jovanovic (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Sally Butterfield (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Matt Welke (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Patrick Wawrzoszek (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Ethan Wu (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Neeraj Ubhe (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Matt Smith (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Brandon Mattalo (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Zev Shoag (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Coleman Weir (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Keith Marshall (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Phil Martin (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Noah Lipsyc (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Qi Pan (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Phong Tran (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Conor Boyd (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Kevin Huynh (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Geoff Jones (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Cara McNeil (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Patrick Turney (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Ellie Castonguay (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Benjamin Lafreniere (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from David Liu (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Louell Taye (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Jake Kenneth Pino Horton (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Dylan Hayden (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ahmad Almawi (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ryan Ledoux (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Devin E. Wilkins (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Jason Li (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Isis Clara Luca (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Michael Budd (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Victor Bacchus (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Sidharth Tanniru (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Martin Molpeceres (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Tommy Donaire (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Dylan Hayden (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Mike Murray (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Aidan Handley-Girard (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Nicholas Christou (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Satadru Roy (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Alexi-Diva Skinner (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Kyle Thompson (MM.New)
(December 14, 2025) Multiple Communications from 50 Individuals (from December 14 to December 15, 2025) (MM.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-201357.pdf
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Theodore Lam (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Helen Liu (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Sunny Fu (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) Letter from Michael Bethkem, President, East Waterfront Community Association (MM.New)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-201370.pdf
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Jason Shen (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ted Hains (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ali Mohamed Mohamud (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Conrad Joseph Day (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from William Vo (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Sean Cooper (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Filip Panaitescu (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Jacob Rice (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Natasha Ouslis (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Michael Evans (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Jake Kenneth Pino Horton (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Espie Krementsova (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Kieran Healey (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Coleman Weir (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Philip Sohm (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Amanda Lee (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Jaye Beer (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Rob Italiano (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Mary Beth (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Laura Eleen (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Brian Edwards (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Cassandra Slepian (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ken Riddell (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Venusz Olah (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Stephen Hill (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Kenny Young (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ben Wedge (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from William Chan (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Blake Maxfield (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Bernie Golden (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Janet Rodriguez (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Callum Reid (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Frankie Yau (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Vinay Sekhar (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Michael Hamel (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Chris Somner (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Asim Datye (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Aaron Young (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Anja Huggins (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Mike Zabrocki (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Janet Elliott (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Zachary Moens (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Rori Senior (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Michael Hoffman (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Courtney Lake (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Piotr Sepski (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Roy Hogg (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Owen Reid (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Patrick Allen McDonald (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Janet Lin (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Daniel Weintraub (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Tom Strickland (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Frank Wang (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) Multiple Communications from 145 Individuals (from December 15 to December 16, 2025) (MM.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-201508.pdf
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Victoria Barnett (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from James Pizzurro (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Mike Reisacher (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Nicole Corrado (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) Letter from Haadhi Faizal Co-Executive Director, More Transit Southern Ontario (MM.New)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-201619.pdf
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-200877.pdf
(December 11, 2025) E-mail from Andrew Zhang (MM.Supp)
(December 11, 2025) E-mail from Vicky Huang (MM.Supp)
(December 12, 2025) E-mail from Yavuz Topbas (MM.Supp)
(December 13, 2025) Letter from Andrew Pulsifer, Executive Director, TTCriders (MM.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-200962.pdf
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Gabriel Bissell-Barahona (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Daniel Fernandes (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Alex Bonenfant (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Jonathan George (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Kenny Young (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Varun Garg (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Simon Zhang (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Vince Bozic (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Marko Jovanovic (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Sally Butterfield (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Matt Welke (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Patrick Wawrzoszek (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Ethan Wu (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Neeraj Ubhe (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Matt Smith (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Brandon Mattalo (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Zev Shoag (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Coleman Weir (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Keith Marshall (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Phil Martin (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Noah Lipsyc (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Qi Pan (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Phong Tran (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Conor Boyd (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Kevin Huynh (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Geoff Jones (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Cara McNeil (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Patrick Turney (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Ellie Castonguay (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Benjamin Lafreniere (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from David Liu (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Louell Taye (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Jake Kenneth Pino Horton (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Dylan Hayden (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ahmad Almawi (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ryan Ledoux (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Devin E. Wilkins (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Jason Li (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Isis Clara Luca (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Michael Budd (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Victor Bacchus (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Sidharth Tanniru (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Martin Molpeceres (MM.Supp)
(December 14, 2025) E-mail from Tommy Donaire (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Dylan Hayden (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Mike Murray (MM.Supp)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Aidan Handley-Girard (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Nicholas Christou (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Satadru Roy (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Alexi-Diva Skinner (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Kyle Thompson (MM.New)
(December 14, 2025) Multiple Communications from 50 Individuals (from December 14 to December 15, 2025) (MM.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-201357.pdf
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Theodore Lam (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Helen Liu (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Sunny Fu (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) Letter from Michael Bethkem, President, East Waterfront Community Association (MM.New)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-201370.pdf
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Jason Shen (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ted Hains (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ali Mohamed Mohamud (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Conrad Joseph Day (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from William Vo (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Sean Cooper (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Filip Panaitescu (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Jacob Rice (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Natasha Ouslis (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Michael Evans (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Jake Kenneth Pino Horton (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Espie Krementsova (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Kieran Healey (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Coleman Weir (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Philip Sohm (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Amanda Lee (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Jaye Beer (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Rob Italiano (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Mary Beth (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Laura Eleen (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Brian Edwards (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Cassandra Slepian (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ken Riddell (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Venusz Olah (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Stephen Hill (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Kenny Young (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Ben Wedge (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from William Chan (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Blake Maxfield (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Bernie Golden (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Janet Rodriguez (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Callum Reid (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Frankie Yau (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Vinay Sekhar (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Michael Hamel (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Chris Somner (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Asim Datye (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Aaron Young (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Anja Huggins (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Mike Zabrocki (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Janet Elliott (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Zachary Moens (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Rori Senior (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Michael Hoffman (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Courtney Lake (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Piotr Sepski (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Roy Hogg (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Owen Reid (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Patrick Allen McDonald (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Janet Lin (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Daniel Weintraub (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Tom Strickland (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) E-mail from Frank Wang (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) Multiple Communications from 145 Individuals (from December 15 to December 16, 2025) (MM.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-201508.pdf
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Victoria Barnett (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from James Pizzurro (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Mike Reisacher (MM.New)
(December 16, 2025) E-mail from Nicole Corrado (MM.New)
(December 15, 2025) Letter from Haadhi Faizal Co-Executive Director, More Transit Southern Ontario (MM.New)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/mm/comm/communicationfile-201619.pdf
Motions (City Council)
Motion
to Waive Referral
(Carried)
Speaker Nunziata advised Council that the provisions of Chapter 27, Council Procedures, require that Motion MM35.15 be referred to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee.. A two-thirds vote of the Council Members present is required to waive referral.
Vote (Waive Referral) Dec-16-2025 10:25 AM
| Result: Carried | Two-Thirds Required - MM35.15 - Waive the referral |
|---|---|
| Total members that voted Yes: 20 | Members that voted Yes are Paul Ainslie, Brad Bradford, Alejandra Bravo, Jon Burnside, Lily Cheng, Rachel Chernos Lin, Olivia Chow, Paula Fletcher, Ausma Malik, Nick Mantas, Josh Matlow, Amber Morley, Jamaal Myers, Frances Nunziata (Chair), James Pasternak, Gord Perks, Anthony Perruzza, Dianne Saxe, Neethan Shan, Michael Thompson |
| Total members that voted No: 2 | Members that voted No are Stephen Holyday, Chris Moise |
| Total members that were Absent: 4 | Members that were absent are Shelley Carroll, Mike Colle (Interest Declared), Vincent Crisanti, Parthi Kandavel |
Motion
to Adopt Item
(Carried)
Vote (Adopt Item) Dec-16-2025 3:14 PM
| Result: Carried | Majority Required - MM35.11 - Adopt the item |
|---|---|
| Total members that voted Yes: 22 | Members that voted Yes are Paul Ainslie, Brad Bradford, Alejandra Bravo, Jon Burnside, Lily Cheng, Rachel Chernos Lin, Olivia Chow, Vincent Crisanti, Paula Fletcher, Parthi Kandavel, Ausma Malik, Josh Matlow, Chris Moise, Amber Morley, Jamaal Myers, Frances Nunziata (Chair), James Pasternak, Gord Perks, Anthony Perruzza, Dianne Saxe, Neethan Shan, Michael Thompson |
| Total members that voted No: 1 | Members that voted No are Stephen Holyday |
| Total members that were Absent: 3 | Members that were absent are Shelley Carroll, Mike Colle (Interest Declared), Nick Mantas |
Declared Interests (City Council)
The following member(s) declared an interest:
Councillor Mike Colle - as his son, Josh Colle, works for the Toronto Transit Commission as the Chief Strategy and Customer Experience Officer.
Written Declaration: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/declared-interest-file.do?id=12821
Councillor Mike Colle - as his son, Josh Colle, works for the Toronto Transit Commission as the Chief Strategy and Customer Experience Officer.
Written Declaration: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/declared-interest-file.do?id=12821