Engineer dated October 4, 2019 entitled "CQ26-2016 Riverside Drive Road Diet- Follow up" BE RECEIVED for information; and further,

That administration BE REQUESTED to provide specific information related to the traffic analysis study portion of the report and that this information BE REFERRED to the 2020 budget deliberations meeting.

This report provides the requested information.

Discussion:

Report S 211/2016 recommended that, should Council choose to pursue a Riverside Drive road diet, a traffic capacity analysis should first be carried out to determine whether the traffic that would divert to other routes could be accommodated on the road network without causing unsatisfactory operations or other issues.

The general scope of this study would be as follows:

Item	Study Scope
Study area	Routes: Riverside Drive University Avenue Wyandotte Street Limits: Crawford Avenue to Walker Road
Locations to be analyzed	All signalized intersections in the study area
Road network scenarios to be analyzed	Existing conditions Road diet conditions
Work plan items	Analyze traffic operations at signalized intersections, Identify locations requiring mitigation, Carry out a qualitative review to identify neighbourhood streets that may experience infiltration traffic, Recommend mitigation options (high-level).

Items that would not be in the scope of the traffic study:

•  Data collection. Traffic count data would be collected by the Corporation's turning movement count contractor as part of the semi-annual turning movement count program, as per normal practice,
•  Public or stakeholder consultation. A traffic study of this type does not normally require public or stakeholder consultation,
•  Preparing an addendum to the Riverside Drive Vista Improvement Environmental Study Report,
•  Preliminary or detailed design of a Riverside Drive road diet or mitigation measures.