McCormack Street - Request for All-Way "Stop" Sign at

Maybank Avenue; and a "No Heavy Trucks" Prohibition

7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. (Davenport)

The Toronto Community Council submits this matter without recommendation.

The Toronto Community Council submits the following communication (May 11, 1998) from Councillor Disero:

Enclosed please find a copy of a report received by our office from Andrew Koropeski, Director of Infrastructure Planning and Transportation with respect to the above-noted.

I would like to request that this be considered at the next Toronto Community Council meeting.

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Communication dated April 22, 1998, from the

Director, Infrastructure Planning and Transportation, City Works Services,

addressed to Councillor Disero

I refer to your letters of October 7, 1997, and February 19, 1998, on behalf of Ms. Louise Wasniewski of Premises No. 407 Maybank Avenue and a telephone conversation on January 12, 1998, between Ms. Wasniewski and Mr. Brian Holditch of City Works Services, regarding the above. I apologize for any inconvenience caused by the delay in my response.

McCormack Street, from Weston Road to the former boundary between the City of Toronto and the City of York, operates two-way with a pavement width of 8.5 metres and a maximum speed limit of 40 kilometres per hour. Maybank Avenue operates two-way with a pavement width of 8.5 metres and a maximum speed limit of 40 kilometres per hour and terminates at McCormack Street to form a "T" type intersection with right-of-way designated by a "Stop" sign for southbound traffic on Maybank Avenue. A private roadway accesses this intersection from the south.

1. Request for an all-way "Stop" sign control at McCormack Street and Maybank Avenue.

An 8-hour peak volume count conducted by City Works Services staff at the subject intersection, revealed that of the 1,143 vehicles entering the intersection from McCormack Street, 1,073 (94%) proceeded straight through the intersection. A total of 68 vehicles were recorded entering the intersection from Maybank Avenue, 32 of which made a left turn onto McCormack Street. A count of pedestrians crossing McCormack Street at Maybank Avenue recorded a total of 35, none of which were children.

A check of Toronto Police Service accident records from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1996 (the most recent data available) revealed no reported accidents at the subject intersection.

City Works Services staff have evaluated this intersection against the technical criteria governing the installation of "Stop" signs, which encompass such things as right-of-way conflicts, vehicular and pedestrian usage of the intersection, physical and geometric configuration, surrounding area traffic control and safety experience, and have determined that this intersection does not meet the criteria for the installation of an all-way "Stop" sign control, in view of the low volume of traffic on Maybank Avenue and the low volume of pedestrians crossing McCormack Street.

2. Request for a "No Heavy Trucks" prohibition on McCormack Street, 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.,daily.

McCormack Street is not prohibited to heavy trucks and Weston Road, at the east end terminus of McCormack Street, is the only access to McCormack Street that does not prohibit access to heavy trucks. The remaining streets intersecting with McCormack Street are residential streets and are prohibited to heavy trucks at all times.

Several commercial businesses, including autobody shops, are located on the south side of McCormack Street between Maybank Avenue and its west end terminus within the former City of York. Consequently, trucks attending these commercial premises must use McCormack Street from Weston Road and, under the provisions of the Municipal Code, would be exempt from any heavy truck prohibition, even if a temporal prohibition were to be implemented, as McCormack Street is the only route available to these trucks.

Accordingly, the introduction of a heavy truck prohibition from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., daily, on McCormack Street is not recommended.