Request to Restrict Traffic Speeds - Lakeview Avenue,

Harrison Street, from Ossington Avenue to

Dovercourt Road (Trinity-Niagara)

The Toronto Community Council recommends the adoption of the following report (May 22, 1998) from the Director, Infrastructure Planning and Transportation, City Works Services:

Purpose:

This proposal is intended to encourage a reduction in vehicle operating speeds on these streets and to bring the speed limit into line with other local/residential streets in the area.

Funding Sources, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:

Not Applicable.

Recommendations:

(1) That the speed limit be reduced from fifty kilometres per hour to forty kilometres per hour on:

(a) Harrison Street from Ossington Avenue to Dovercourt Road;

(b) Lakeview Avenue from Dundas Street West to Churchill Avenue; and

(2) That the appropriate City Officials be requested to take whatever action is necessary to give effect to the foregoing, including the introduction in Council of any Bills that are required.

Comments:

At the request of Trinity-Niagara Councillors Joe Pantalone and Mario Silva, Works staff have investigated lowering the speed limit on Harrison Street, west of Ossington Avenue and on Lakeview Avenue in its entirety to enhance operational safety on these streets. Harrison Street operates one-way westbound from Ossington Avenue to Lakeview Avenue and two way from Lakeview Avenue to Dovercourt Road with a pavement width of 7.3 metres. Lakeview Avenue operates two way from Dundas Street West to Churchill Avenue with a pavement width of 6.4 metres. The current maximum speed limit on both streets is fifty kilometres per hour.

Both Harrison Street and Lakeview Avenue are primarily residential in character. To provide a safeguard for pedestrians and to bring these streets into line with other local streets in the neighbourhood, the maximum speed limit should be reduced from fifty kilometres per hour to forty kilometres per hour.

This reduction is consistent with the policy adopted by a previous 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, in Executive Committee Report No. 5).

Contact Name and Telephone Number:

Ron Hamilton

Transportation Operations Coordinator

392-1806

The Toronto Community Council also submits the following joint communication (May 13, 1998) from Councillors Pantalone and Silva:

Lakeview Avenue and Harrison Street are predominantly residential streets where traffic speeds are of justifiable concern to local residents. Given that the speed limit on adjacent Churchill Avenue and on Harrison Street, east of Ossington Avenue, is already 40 kilometers an hour, the current limit of 50 kilometers an hour on Lakeview Avenue and Harrison Street, west of Ossington Avenue, is excessive.

Recommendations:

(1) City of Toronto by-laws be amended to restrict traffic speeds to a maximum of 40 kilometers an hour on Lakeview Avenue, in its entirety, and on Harrison Street, from Ossington Avenue to Dovercourt Road;

(2) Proper signage be installed as soon as possible; and

(3) City officials give effect thereto.