Item - 2021.IE19.9

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that:

1. City Council authorize the installation of traffic control signals at the intersection of Bloor Street West and Dundas Street West.

2. City Council authorize the installation of traffic control signals at the intersection of Dundas Street West and Kipling Avenue.

3. City Council authorize the installation of traffic control signals at the intersection of Dundas Street West and Dundas Street West.

4. City Council authorize the installation of traffic control signals at the intersection of Dundas Street West and Bindagen Trail.

5. City Council designate the two most easterly southbound lanes on Kipling Avenue, between Bloor Street West and a point 30.5 metres north, for southbound left-turns only.

6. City Council designate the two most northerly eastbound lanes on Bloor Street West, between Dundas Street West and a point 30.5 metres west, for eastbound left-turns only.

7. City Council designate the two most southerly westbound lanes on Bloor Street West, between Dundas Street West and a point 30.5 metres east, for westbound left-turns only.

8. City Council designate the two most easterly northbound lanes on Dundas Street West, between Dundas Street West and a point 30.5 metres south, for northbound right-turns only.

9. City Council designate the most southerly westbound lane on Dundas Street West, between Dundas Street West and a point 30.5 metres east, for westbound left-turns only.

10. City Council designate the most northerly westbound lane on Dundas Street West, between Dundas Street West and a point 30.5 metres east, for westbound left-turn, straight through and right-turn movements.

11. City Council designate the most northerly westbound lane on Bloor Street West, between Resurrection Road and Prennan Avenue, as a cycle track.

12. City Council designate the most southerly eastbound lane on Bloor Street West, between Beamish Drive and Resurrection Road, as a cycle track.

13. City Council designate the most northerly westbound and most southerly eastbound lanes on Dundas Street West, between Aukland Road and Dundas Street West, as cycle tracks.

14. City Council designate the most westerly southbound and the most easterly northbound lanes on Kipling Avenue, between Bloor Street West and Dundas Street West, as cycle tracks.

15. City Council designate the most westerly southbound lane on Kipling Avenue, between Dundas Street West and a point 58 metres south of Viking Lane, as a bicycle lane.

16. City Council designate the most easterly northbound lane on Kipling Avenue, between a point 33 metres south of the access road from northbound Kipling Avenue to St, Albans Road and Dundas Street West, as a bicycle lane.

17. City Council prohibit northbound, southbound, eastbound and westbound right-turn-on-red signal movements at the intersection of Bloor Street West and Kipling Avenue.

18. City Council prohibit northbound, southbound, eastbound and westbound right-turn-on-red signal movements at the intersection of Bloor Street West and Dundas Street West.

19. City Council prohibit northbound, southbound, eastbound and westbound right-turn-on-red signal movements at the intersection of Dundas Street West and Kipling Avenue.

20. City Council prohibit northbound right-turn-on-red movements on Dundas Street West at Dundas Street West.

21. City Council rescind the existing northbound left-turn prohibition on Beamish Drive at Bloor Street West.

22. City Council adopt regulatory parking amendments listed in Attachments 6 and 7 attached to the report (December 18, 2020) from the General Manager, Transportation Services, with Attachment 7 amended by replacing the reference to "Highway 27" with "Highway 427".

Following more than ten years of planning, consultation, engineering design, and construction, the Six Points Interchange Reconfiguration Project in the Bloor Street West, Dundas Street West and Kipling Avenue area of Etobicoke is nearing completion.

The reconfiguration supports the development of Etobicoke Centre as a vibrant mixed-use transit-oriented community and the design features including:

- a new road network and at-grade intersection at Dundas Street, Bloor Street and Kipling Avenue;
- Complete Streets, with improved pedestrian facilities, wide boulevards, trees, street furniture, improved access to Kipling Subway Station, cycling infrastructure installed on all major streets;
- new land available for potential uses such as parkettes, public art installations, development and other amenities; and
- a district energy plan.
 

Reconstruction of the Six Points Interchange follows an Environmental Assessment completed in 2008, and detailed technical design study completed in 2016. The reconstruction removes existing bridges constructed in 1961, and creates regular intersections between Kipling Avenue, Bloor Street West and Dundas Street West.

This report seeks Council authorization of the traffic regulation amendments required to reflect current field conditions, including the authorization of traffic control signals, turn lane, bicycle lane and cycle track designations, and right-turn-on-red prohibitions. The proposed traffic regulation amendments were part of the approved design for the Six Points Interchange Reconfiguration Project.