Get involved in the City’s Neighbourhood Traffic Calming Plan
What is your vision for safer streets in Vaughan? What opportunities do you see to improve livability and roads in your neighbourhood? What types of traffic calming measures would you like to see installed to keep our streets safe for all road users? The City of Vaughan is exploring different ways to slow down vehicular speed and create safer streets, and you can have your say!
You’re invited to take an online survey until Monday, Feb. 13 to help the City understand your priorities and move towards a road network where residential and collector streets – the types of streets with homes, schools, neighbourhood parks, local businesses and community centres – are safe, welcoming and comfortable for users of all ages and abilities.
What is traffic calming?
Traffic
calming refers to physical features and road designs meant to:
- reduce vehicular speeds.
- reduce the number and severity of collisions.
- improve pedestrian and cyclist safety.
- improve the quality of the environment.
- potentially reduce traffic volumes.
Traffic calming can take many forms, including the development or installation of curb and sidewalk extensions, roundabouts, narrowed roads, raised crosswalks at intersections, pavement markings or flexi-posts. To learn more about the different types of traffic calming measures in Vaughan, visit vaughan.ca/TrafficCalming.
What is the Neighbourhood Traffic Calming Plan?
As part of the City's MoveSmart Mobility Management Strategy (MoveSmart), the Neighbourhood Traffic Calming Plan will guide the City in updating the existing Neighbourhood Traffic Committee Policy and Procedures (PDF) to establish a set of revised guidelines for implementing traffic calming measures along new and existing roads in Vaughan. A key focus of this project is to create a high-quality, people-oriented and sustainable built environment that continues promoting a culture of road safety.
Once the City has a stronger sense of which tools are best fit for Vaughan, a new traffic calming toolbox will be developed and presented to the public for comment. Five pilot neighbourhoods will then be selected to test the new traffic calming toolbox. Appropriate traffic calming and speed management approaches will be chosen carefully, temporarily installed and actively monitored in each pilot neighbourhood to test their efficacy.
Selected neighbourhoods will be engaged before the installation of the traffic calming tools. The City will work closely with key stakeholders, including community members and road safety partners, such as York Regional Police, to evaluate and monitor how the solutions are working.
How can I get involved?
Take the survey
You’re invited to take an online
survey by
Monday, Feb. 13 to share your ideas and priorities for improving the streets in
your neighbourhood. The survey will take about 10-20 minutes to complete.
Map the areas of concern
Are there specific areas in Vaughan where
you see or experience issues related to traffic calming and speed management? Drop a
pin on this map to
identify the area of concern, include your comments and upload any pictures of
the area or intersection.
Attend an information session
The City is hosting virtual and in-person
information sessions for residents to learn more about the Neighbourhood
Traffic Calming Plan and ask the project team questions.
Virtual information sessions:
In-person information sessions:
- Al Palladini Community Centre on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 1 p.m.
- Maple Community Centre on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 1 p.m.
City staff will also be on-site at Winterfest on Sunday, Feb. 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Register your attendance to one or more of these information sessions at vaughan.ca/NeighbourhoodPlan. You can also submit questions in advance to traffic.services@vaughan.ca with “Neighbourhood Traffic Calming Plan” and the date of the session you are attending in the subject line.
Join the mailing list
Email traffic.services@vaughan.ca with the subject line “Neighbourhood Traffic
Calming Plan” and request to be added to the mailing list to receive
information on future engagement opportunities.
For more information and to stay up to date on this project, visit vaughan.ca/NeighbourhoodPlan.
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