The North Leaside Traffic Committee has recommended the one-year trial closing at Bayview Ave. of all three east-west streets north of Eglinton. These are Glenvale Blvd, Broadway Ave. and Craig Crescent. The NLTC has studied and rejected an alternative scheme for an elaborate one-way street system for North Leaside. The committee, which was created by Councillor Burnside in 2015, proposes to place so-called concrete Jersey Barriers at Bayview and the entrances to these three streets to stop traffic both ways. The scope of the committee’s recommendations is enormous. Members seem to concede there is little chance for them to foresee all the consequences of their recommendations nor the things which are likely to flow from the re-making of Eglinton Ave. after the LRT is built and running. Councillor Burnside has written a summary of the work and this analysis is worth reading. A visual spread-sheet of the two NLTC proposals is here. Residents are asked to fill out a survey.The survey is for every voting-aged member of a household. The survey is designed that way to mimic as closely as possible the City polling process, if required in the future, should the community indicate an interest in moving forward on a particular proposal.
INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH BAYVIEW
The potential impact of any traffic-calming plan has relevance to the broader area. The impact for those west of Bayview on Broadway and other streets of the dead-ending at Bayview and Broadway is unclear. The Leaside planning process has thrown up guesses about the numbers of people who will occupy new high-rise development such as that to be built at the Sunnybrook Plaza site. Some say there will be as many as 10,000 people added between Bayview and Brentcliffe alone. The future political impact of these residents seemed to weigh heavily on planning.
Is this not going to *massively* increase the number of folks turning left onto Bayview and Eglinton? Right now Broadway is a relief valve for that.