Item - 2020.IE14.12

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that:

1. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to continue to upgrade the cycle lane at intersections along Dundas Street East between Broadview and Kingston Road to include protection. 

2. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to immediately implement temporary protected bicycle lanes (cycle tracks) along Dundas Street East between Broadview and Kingston Road where possible. 

3. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to report to the October 6, 2020 meeting of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee on:

a. a timeline for upgrading Dundas Street East to a cycle track, including consultation and construction;

b. suitable connections between the Danforth and the Cosburn bike lanes in Ward 14 and timelines for consultation, design and installation; and

c. an update on design and implementation for recommendations 1 and 2 above. 

On May 28, 2020, City Council adopted CC21.20 Cycling Network Plan Installations: Bloor West Bikeway Extension & ActiveTO Projects and requested Transportation Services to report to the July 9, 2020 meeting of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee on the status of previous requests to improve the bike lanes on Dundas Street East.  The purpose of this report is to provide an update on these requests.

Bicycle lanes on Dundas Street East have long provided a vital east/west cycling connection. In the 2001 Toronto Bike Plan, Dundas Street East was identified as a candidate for bicycle lanes from River Street to Kingston Road and in 2003, bicycle lanes were installed on the section of Dundas Street East from Broadview Avenue to Kingston Road.  The Dundas Street East bicycle lanes are connected to the protected bicycle lanes on Woodbine Avenue via contra-flow bicycle lanes on Dixon Avenue.

Transportation Services has installed a number of safety improvements along Dundas Street East including pavement marking enhancements along the corridor and intersection improvements at Dundas Street East and Jones Avenue.

In June 2020, as part of the ActiveTO program, temporary protected bicycle lanes (cycle tracks) were installed to extend the Dundas Street East bicycle lanes by 1 kilometre (km) from their end point just east of Broadview, west to Sackville Street to provide a safe connection through the Broadview intersection and over the Don Valley Parkway bridge.