Item - 2025.TE26.14

The Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services recommends that:

1. City Council direct the General Manager, Transportation Services, to report back to the Toronto and East York Community Council in the first quarter of 2026 with a positive recommendation for local roads identified in the RapidTO Dufferin Street and Bathurst Street data monitoring program that satisfy the traffic calming policy guidelines, in consultation with the local Councillors.

2. City Council direct the General Manager, Transportation Services to report back to the Toronto and East York Community Council in first quarter of 2026 with recommendations to change on-street permit parking hours, to affix on-street permit parking to the side of the street with greater supply, and to adjust on-street permit parking spaces at appropriate locations informed by engagement with the local residents and local Councillors.

3. City Council direct the General Manager, Transportation Services to work with the local Councillors to create a Community Working Group and to report on progress by the end of the first quarter of 2026, in developing a unified set of changes to address permit parking supply, speeding and traffic infiltration issues that arise as a result of RapidTO: Dufferin Street implementation.

4. City Council direct the General Manager, Transportation Services to work with religious institutions fronting on affected portions of Bathurst Street or Dufferin Street to ensure that they can continue to conduct funerals and marshall funeral processions during off-peak hours.

On July 23-24, 2025, City Council adopted EX 25.4 RapidTO: Transit Priority on Dufferin Street and Bathurst Street, which includes the installation of priority transit lanes on Dufferin Street, from King Street West to Bloor Street West, and on Bathurst Street, from Bathurst Station to Lake Shore Boulevard West. Approved changes also include turn restrictions at key locations to improve traffic flow.

While priority transit lanes provide a benefit to the transit riders on both Dufferin Street and Bathurst Street, it is expected that there will be a change in how people travel and park in the nearby areas. Responding to direction from Council, this report identifies potential solutions to mitigate the impacts on changes to nearby local road travel patterns and the availability of on-street parking that may result from the Council-approved changes on Dufferin Street and Bathurst Street, including:

- Potential infiltration of traffic onto local streets;

- Parking supply for permit holders around Dufferin Street; and

- Off-street and side-street parking supply near Bathurst Street around St. Moses and St. Katherine Coptic Orthodox Church.

Transportation Services is committed to bringing forward recommendations for local streets with existing conditions that meet the requirements for traffic calming. Additional data collection is currently underway to inform recommendations for measures to be implemented on local streets.

While a review of utilization in permit parking areas adjacent to Dufferin Street demonstrated sufficient capacity to absorb the loss in permit parking spaces on Dufferin Street between Dundas Street West and Peel Avenue, there are two identified potential opportunities to improve area permit parking access and supply:

- Green P spaces can be used overnight on Gladstone Avenue, north of Bloor Street West; and

- Alternating side on-street permit parking can be allocated to the side with the higher number of spaces on up to eight local roads.

Additionally, Transportation Services has reviewed parking in the area around St. Moses & St. Katherine Coptic Orthodox Church, located near Bathurst Street. A loading zone has been included in the final design of RapidTO: Bathurst Street, located in front of the Church during Sunday service hours and holidays. Further changes are not recommended at this time, as sufficient parking alternatives are available on adjacent streets.