Burlington council approves Recommendations from Traffic, Congestion and Road Safety Roundtables (MO-02-26) 5-0

The agenda included an urgent business item titled Recommendations from Traffic, Congestion and Road Safety Roundtables (MO-02-26). The 2023 Community Survey identified traffic and road safety as the top issue requiring attention from Mayor and Council.

The roundtables confirmed that traffic congestion remained a top concern for Burlington residents and required coordinated action across multiple jurisdictions. Participants identified priority actions to address congestion and improve road safety, including a move toward a single operating model for traffic signal operations across Burlington, and recommendations that supported existing directions such as the Street A connection to link King Road with Aldershot GO Station, Highway 403 and Waterdown Road to ease congestion in surrounding street networks.

The motion, as recorded in the minutes:

Receive and file the key findings and strategic priorities arising from the Mayor's Roundtables as outlined in Report MO-0-26 and further supported through the supplementary report as the foundation for advancing Burlington's next phase on Transportation Systems management, including endorsing enhanced intergovernmental collaboration, governance improvements, technology enabled transportation management and evidence-based congestion mitigation, and request that staff to take into account the findings of the roundtable in the development of the Q4 traffic management system report; and Direct th

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