Item - 2021.TE25.20

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1. Designated areas in Ward 4, Ward 9 and Ward 19 as designated areas with an associated speed limit of 30 km/h, with the exception of specified excluded highways or bridges, and amend the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, generally as outlined in Revised Attachment 1 dated May 18, 2021 to the report (April 29, 2021) from the Director, Project Design and Management.

This staff report is about speed limit reductions for which Community Council has delegated authority to make a final decision, provided that it is not amended so that it varies with City policy or by-laws.

The Vision Zero Road Safety Plan Speed Management Strategy focuses on how higher speeds contribute to higher risk of serious injuries and fatalities, and that setting lower speed limits is a key tool for reducing operating speeds on Toronto's roadways. The Vision Zero Speed Management Strategy includes a program for reducing speed limits on local roads, as defined in the City's Road Classification System and public lanes or public alleys, to 30 km/h on a neighbourhood basis. With this approach the City is no longer required to sign every individual street within that designated area but only the entry and exit points to/from the designated area where speed limits change and any internal roads with a different speed limit.

In 2015, two Community Council reports were approved, reducing all local roadways with speed limits of 50 km/h and 40 km/h to 30 km/h.

The purpose of this report is to recommend area-based speed limit reductions to 30 km/h on public lanes or public alleys and local roads in the parts of Wards 4, 9 and 19 added to the Toronto and East York Community Council area in 2018. This will complete the reduction of speed limits on all local roads in the Toronto and East York Community Council area to 30 km/h. This measure supports the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan Speed Management Strategy.