Item - 2011.MM14.16

City Council on November 29, 30 and December 1, 2011, adopted the following:

1.          City Council request the General Manager of Transportation Services to report to the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee on:

            a.         the feasibility of the City of Toronto implementing side guards on its own City of Toronto large trucks, both new vehicles and retrofits; and

            b.         the feasibility of a truck side guard policy whereby the City conducts business with only or prefers business with companies whose large trucks are equipped with side guards.

2.         City Council request the General Manager of Transportation Services to report to the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee on options for the introduction within the City of Toronto of safety measures that would increase pedestrian and cycling safety (e.g. truck side guards, convex mirror systems, additional turn signals, audible warning systems, right turn restrictions on heavily used cycling routes, additional cycling infrastructure).

3.          City Council support and request that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities also support Bill C-344 calling for side under-run guards on large trucks.

4.          City Council request the General Manager of Transportation Services to report to the Public Works and Infrastructure Commitee with an update to the May 2006 staff report (Report 4, Clause 8 of the Works Committee considered at June 27, 2006 Council meeting) entitled "Large Trucks and Cyclist/Pedestrian Safety", and that this update include:

             a.        Response from Transport Canada to the City's 2006 request regarding side guards on large trucks;

             b.        Response by other municipalities in the GTA to the 1998 Regional Coroner's recommendation;

             c.        Post 2005 collision information involving cyclists;

             d.        Results of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) study on "Safe Accomodation of Vulnerable Road Users and Large Commercial Vehicles"; and

             e.        Information on how other jurisdictions within the GTA, Canada and internationally have addressed the issue of large trucks and pedestrian and cyclist safety.