8.ALL-WAY STOP CONTROL TRIAL RESULTS - VARSITY ROAD

WARD 27, YORK-HUMBER

 Commissioner of Operations Services, York Civic Service Centre

(April 16, 1998)

Purpose:

Provide trial results on all-way stop controls installed on Varsity Road at Crosby/Doran Avenues and Van Stassen Boulevard.

Funding Sources, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:

Traffic budget.

Recommendations:

(1)That the existing all-way stop controls at Varsity Road and Crosby/Doran Avenues and Varsity Road and Van Stassen Boulevard permanently remain;

(2)Further, that a copy of this report be forwarded to the Warren Park Ratepayers Association for their information.

Council Reference/Background History:

Council (former City of York), at its regular meeting on March 5, 1997, approved the installation of all-way stop controls on Varsity Road at the intersections of Crosby/Doran Avenues and Van Stassen Boulevard for a six-month trial period.

Comments and/or Discussion and/or Justification:

The Works and Parks Committee, at its meeting on February 24, 1997, received a report (Appendix I) which was introduced on behalf of the Warren Park Ratepayers Association, as a result of a request concerning excessive speeding on Varsity Road.

Detailed within our report, study results revealed 63.7% of the motorists exceeded the legal speed limit of 40 km/h, during the seven-day study.

Study results also revealed that all-way stop controls were not warranted at either intersection.

However, because excessive speed was a major problem on Varsity Road, we recommended that the pedestrian crossovers located at Varsity Road and Crosby/Doran Avenues and Varsity Road and Van Stassen Boulevard be replaced with all-way stop controls, as an alternative to traffic calming.

Appendix II is a summary of recent stop compliance studies undertaken at the intersections of Varsity Road and Crosby/Doran Avenues and Van Stassen Boulevard. As the study results reveal, only 2% of the total vehicular volume observed entering either intersection failed to make a rolling or complete stop.

Conclusions:

Based on the stop compliance rate at the intersections of Varsity Road and Crosby/Doran Avenues and Van Stassen Boulevard, the all-way stop controls are being adhered to by the majority of motorists utilizing either intersection, therefore, we recommend that they permanently remain.

Contact Person:

Stephen C. Brown

Manager Traffic/Parking

394-2655

394-2888 (fax)

(All relevant information is on file in the Clerk=s Office, York Civic Service Centre.)