Item - 2020.TE16.66

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1. Directed the Acting Director, Traffic Management, Transportation Services, to request the City Clerk to poll eligible householders on Strathearn Road, between Eglinton Avenue West and Dewbourne Avenue, to determine whether residents support the installation of traffic calming, in accordance with the City of Toronto Traffic Calming Policy.

2. Subject to favourable results of the poll:

a. Authorized the installation of traffic calming (speed humps) on Strathearn Road, between Eglinton Avenue West and Dewbourne Avenue; and

b. Directed the City Solicitor to prepare a by-law to alter sections of the roadway on Strathearn Road, between Eglinton Avenue West and Dewbourne Avenue, to install one speed hump, generally as shown on the attached copy of Drawing No. 421G-3758, dated June 2020.

I am writing to you to request Community Council's support for a motion that is important to the constituents of the Toronto-St. Paul's ward, but one that could not be brought forward by staff due to the impacts of the pandemic on staff redeployments.

The residents of Strathearn Road approached my office last September with a petition for speed humps on the block between Eglinton Avenue West and Dewbourne Avenue. We have recently received the findings of the study conducted by Traffic Operations, which indicated that the street did not meet the minimum warrants in order to be approved for speed humps. As staff have not provided any other options that could address the community's concern over speeding at this location, I would like to give the community the opportunity to voice their interest in having speed humps through an official City poll. Speed humps tend to be one of the more effective and meaningful ways that we can help address these concerns over speeding, so I hope you will support my request in order to help my constituents.