Item - 2026.TE28.47

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1. Directed the General Manager, Transportation Services to report back to the Toronto and East York Community Council in the first quarter of 2026 with immediate measures to discourage afternoon rush-hour cut-through traffic on Euclid Avenue between Dundas Street West and Bloor Street West, including:

a. additional speed humps, particularly in the vicinity of facilities for children;

b. “no through-traffic” signage; and

c. restricting left turns from Euclid Avenue onto Bloor Street West and Harbord Street, especially during the afternoon rush-hour.

Euclid Avenue is an interior residential street with schools and a heavily used children’s park, which used to carry primarily local traffic. As the closest northbound street west of Bathurst that runs continuously from Queen Street to north of Bloor, Euclid now suffers from heavy cut-through traffic by impatient drivers, directed there by navigation apps. As a result, seniors, families, cyclists and children are increasingly at risk. Many of these drivers block or push through pedestrians and cyclists travelling east on Bloor Street in order to turn left onto Bloor or Harbord. There is no traffic light at these now dangerous intersections.

After extensive consultation with concerned neighbours, discouraging navigation apps from directing through traffic along Euclid is a high local priority.