Council asked to direct staff to study Billy Bishop Way as a main transit and truck route through Downsview, to relieve traffic pressure on Dufferin Street extension

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Council asked to direct staff to study Billy Bishop Way as a main transit and truck route through Downsview, to relieve traffic pressure on Dufferin Street extension

A motion by Councillor James Pasternak asks city staff to explore designating Billy Bishop Way as the primary north-south corridor for TTC buses, trucks, and general traffic through the Downsview redevelopment lands. The proposal aims to ease traffic impacts on the Ancaster residential community west of the planned Dufferin Street extension, which is part of the Major Streets Environmental Assessment for the 115,000-person Downsview redevelopment.

not yet heardToronto City Council · Wed, Jul 29You can weigh in

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• The Downsview redevelopment will add 115,000 residents and 52,000 jobs across 15 neighbourhoods over 30 years, making transportation routing decisions now consequential for long-term traffic patterns.

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Wed, Jul 29 · Toronto City Council · not yet heard

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This item is not yet before council. Once it appears on a published agenda with a meeting date, residents in the Ancaster and Downsview areas, as well as those concerned with transit routing and traffic impacts, can depute at the committee or council meeting.

Why is this story here?

Big deal at city hallThis motion directs a study that will shape major arterial routing through a massive long-term redevelopment (115,000 residents). Once adopted, it constrains how the Major Streets Environmental Assessment proceeds and commits staff time and analysis resources. It is hard to reverse if built into the EA phases, and it affects transportation infrastructure serving tens of thousands of future residents.Touches a narrow groupNo resident's week changes today. The Downsview redevelopment is ongoing but not yet built; the traffic impacts are prospective. Current Ancaster residents are affected by the *prospect* of Dufferin extension impacts, but the actual routing decision remains in the EA process. A narrow group (Ancaster residents, future Downsview dwellers) cares intensely, but present-week effect is minimal.

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Official title: Billy Bishop Way Revisited: Leveraging a Road Less Travelled - by Councillor James Pasternak, seconded by Councillor Vincent Crisanti · meeting video