Item - 2025.TE23.61

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1.  Requested the General Manager, Transportation Services to report back on the status of short and medium-term traffic mitigating actions identified and implemented from the Liberty Village Traffic Action Plan to the July 8, 2025 meeting of the Toronto and East York Community Council, including:

a. engagement with the Liberty Village Residents’ Association and local residents, including a public information session to communicate updates, and dedicated ongoing meetings;

b. ensuring traffic agents or paid duty officers are on the ground regularly in the community at priority intersections, including at Strachan/East Liberty/Ordnance and Dufferin/Liberty;

c. coordination with Exhibition Place on major and special events management in the neighbourhood; and

d. monitoring and measures on travel times.

In Summer 2024, at the height of untenable traffic congestion in Liberty Village, my office moved forward a Traffic Action Plan for the neighbourhood. This focused around the need for tangible immediate, short, medium and longer-term improvements to ease congestion, as well as a focus on regular touchpoints with community stakeholders and local residents.

As we plan and coordinate around special events in the community this summer, and as residents continue to report serious traffic concerns in navigating in and out of the neighbourhood, this strategy requires further iteration and commitment. This needs to include proactive and coordinated engagement and communication with my office, neighbourhood stakeholders, and residents on the progress of implementation.

I am looking to see the response to amendments made by my office at the October 2024 meeting of TEYCC.