June 8, 1999

To:Toronto Community Council

From:Andrew Koropeski, Director, Transportation Services, District 1

Subject:Coe Hill Drive between the Queensway and Windermere Avenue - Reduction of speed limit (High Park - Ward 19)

Purpose:

To reduce the speed limit on Coe Hill Drive from fifty kilometres per hour to forty kilometres per hour.

Funding Source, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:

Funds to undertake the necessary signage installations in the amount of $800 are contained in the Transportation Services Division 1999 Current Budget.

Recommendations:

That the speed limit on Coe Hill Drive from the Queensway to Windermere Avenue be reduced from fifty kilometres per hour to forty kilometres per hour; and

That the appropriate City officials be requested to take whatever action is necesary to give effect to the foregoing, including the introduction in Council of any Bills that are required.

Comments:

At the request of Councillor Chris Korwin-Kuczynski, Works staff investigated the feasibility of lowering the speed limit on Coe Hill Drive between the Queensway and Windermere Avenue. Coe Hill Drive operates two-way with a pavement width of 8.5 metres and currently has a maximum speed limit of fifty kilometres per hour.

In view of the fact that a majority of the surrounding streets currently operate with a speed limit of forty kilometres per hour and in keeping with the policy adopted by the former City of Toronto Council at its meeting of February 25 and 26, 1991 to designate streets in residential areas as forty kilometre per hour speed zones (Clause 28 of City Services Committee Report No. 3, contained in

Executive Committee Report No. 5), it is recommended that the speed limit on Coe Hill Drive be reduced to forty kilometres per hour.

Contact Name and Telephone Number

Erin Holl, Co-ordinator, Traffic Operations

392-7892

Director

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