2025.MM32.6

Background

"Rapid, frequent, reliable transit is essential to a livable, affordable, prosperous city . 60 percent of all transit trips in Toronto include surface transit (buses and streetcars). The Toronto Transit Commission Strategic Plan identifies traffic congestion as one of the key obstacles to improving the speed and reliability of surface transit. This includes parked cars. The Toronto Board of Trade has recommended that the price of parking be used to redirect parking away from arterial roads as a key measure to reduce congestion that hampers the movement of people and goods, including transit vehicles.”

Source: City of Toronto

Item Description

"City Council request[ed] the … Toronto Parking Authority to report back… with recommendations to set on-street parking rates on busy surface transit routes in Ward 11 that fairly represent the value of the public right of way, promote short-term parking and facilitate efficient and reliable transit."

Source: City of Toronto

Proposed by

Councillor Dianne Saxe, seconded by Councillor Alejandra Bravo