Lighter traffic calming measures on Lightbourn and Chandos avenues in a residential neighbourhood

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Lighter traffic calming measures on Lightbourn and Chandos avenues in a residential neighbourhood

A traffic safety plan for a Davenport-area neighbourhood responds to resident concerns about speeding and cut-through traffic. The plan includes traffic calming on two streets, curb extensions, painted crosswalks, and a feasibility study for one intersection crossing. This is a neighbourhood-scale intervention.

adoptedToronto and East York Community Council · Wed, Jul 8

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• Plan includes a feasibility study for a pedestrian crosswalk at Davenport Road and Lightbourn Avenue, not a commitment to build it; the actual buildout is conditional.

The journey

Wed, Jul 8 · Toronto and East York Community Council · adopted

Decision

Adopted: traffic calming on Lightbourn and Chandos avenues; curb extensions and painted crosswalks on Lightbourn; pedestrian crossing markings between Beaver Lightbourn Parkette and Chandos Park, and between the two Chandos Park sections; feasibility study for Davenport Road and Lightbourn Avenue intersection.

On video

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Why is this story here?

ContainedA single neighbourhood, four streets bounded, no multi-year citywide commitment or institutional change. Traffic calming and crosswalks are reversible and routine interventions. No door-closing for future councils. Meets the test: bounded, a future council could redirect or undo it without serious cost.Felt nowResidents of the Davenport-Lightbourn-Chandos area experience this directly and immediately: safer school routes, reduced speeding on their streets, marked crossings between parks. The group is specific (the bounded neighbourhood) and the effect is tangible in an ordinary week once implemented. Does not reach broad-and-immediate because the effect is neighbourhood-scoped, not citywide.

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Official title: Safer Streets for Davenport: Lightbourn-Chandos Traffic Safety Plan · meeting video