A volunteer body known as the South Leaside Traffic Committee is recommending no left turns at rush hour at Soudan/Parkhurst and Bayview Ave. It also favours a full-time ban on straight-through traffic from Davisville to Leaside and vice versa. Right turns would be okay at any time. The committee was created by and reports to Jon Burnside (Ward 26). The no left idea isn’t quite the same for Davisville residents as for those in Leaside. Access southbound has many alternates for Leaside drivers. For those on the west side access to Bayview northbound will mean a trip north on Banff (or other street) or the prospect of sitting in the left-turn lane (if there is one) at the corner of Eglinton and Bayview. It may be necessary. The committee concludes that traffic lights create traffic over time and this may be true but in the era of LRT condominium towers, there is going to be traffic. Councillor Josh Matlow is also party to this planning and has consulted people on the Ward 22 side of Bayview.
