Report to: Development
Services Committee Date
Report Authored: April 13, 2010
SUBJECT: Proposed
All-way Stop Control at Royal Orchard Boulevard & the Southbound Ramp to
Bayview Avenue
PREPARED BY: David Porretta, Traffic Operations Supervisor, ext. 2040
Balendra Sinnadurai, Engineering Technologist, ext. 2608
RECOMMENDATION:
1)
That the report entitled
“Proposed All-way Stop Control at Royal Orchard Boulevard & the Southbound
Ramp to Bayview Avenue”, be received;
2)
And that Schedule 12 of Traffic By-law 106-71 for All-way
stop Control be amended to include the intersection of Royal Orchard Boulevard
and the southbound ramp to Bayview Avenue;
3)
And that the Operations Department be directed to install the
appropriate signs and pavement markings at the
subject locations, funded through the Operations
Department account # 083-5399-8402-005;
4)
And that the Operations
Department be directed to maintain the signs at the subject locations;
5)
And that York Regional Police be requested to enforce
the all-way stop control upon installation of these signs and passing of the
By-law;
6)
And that staff be authorized and directed to do
all things necessary to give effect to this resolution.
This report recommends implementing an all-way stop control at the
intersection of Royal Orchard Boulevard and the southbound ramp to Bayview
Avenue.
Councillor Valerie Burke’s office received a request from local
residents for an all-way stop control at the intersection of Royal Orchard
Boulevard and the southbound ramp to Bayview Avenue. The intersection is located in a residential area just
west of Bayview Avenue, north of Green Lane.
Access between Royal Orchard
Boulevard and Bayview Avenue is limited by two ramps; with each ramp services
either northbound or southbound Bayview Avenue (see Attachment A). The southbound ramp begins at Bayview Avenue
and intersects with Royal Orchard Boulevard in a “T” configuration. Royal Orchard Boulevard is assigned the
right-of-way, with stop control assigned to the ramp.
DISCUSSION:
An all-way
stop control may be considered where provincial warrant guidelines are met, as
outlined in Ontario Traffic Manual, Book 5.
The warrants consider the total vehicular volume and the volume distribution
at the intersection during the busiest one-hour period of the day. Traffic Operations staff conducted an
all-way stop warrant analysis on a weekday between 8:00am – 9:00am, which is
the busiest hour of the day. The warrant
analysis results are as follows:
All-way stop control
is warranted when both Warrants 1 and 2 are satisfied. As shown above, the intersection does meet Provincial guidelines for all-way
stop control. Therefore, Traffic Operations
staff recommends that all-way stop control be provided.
It is expected that the all-way stop control will improve traffic safety at
the intersection by removing the right-of-way from Royal Orchard Boulevard and
introducing delays to those approaches.
This will allow vehicles to safely enter the intersection from the ramp.
The cost of
labour and materials to implement the signs and pavement markings are included
in the Operations Department Account # 083-5399-8402-005. On-going maintenance costs for this
installation will be included in future Operations
Department budgets.
This report
aligns with the community safety component of transportation/transit strategic
priority.
RECOMMENDED BY:
_______________________ ________________________
Paul
Ingham,
Peter Loukes,
General
Manager, Operations Director, Operations
_______________________
Brenda Librecz,
Commissioner,
Community & Fire Services
ATTACHMENTS;
Attachment A
- Location Map
Attachment B
- All-way Stop Control By-law Amendment
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Management\Reports\2010\Operations\Business & Technical\Traffic
Operations\JUN\Royal Orchard All-way Stop Control\Royal Orchard AWSC Report.doc