Public Works and Infrastructure Committee

WHEREAS recommendation 5 of the Implications of Bill 56 and Strategic Road Safety Action Plan Annual Report recommends that Council “Return surplus Temporary Traffic Calming city wide capital funds at the end of each term of council to the Road Safety Reserve, with final balances to be documented in the annual Capital Adjustments and Closing of Projects report”; WHEREAS the Temporary Traffic Calming Measures (TTCM) Program continues to evolve to include a wider range of traffic calming elements and project types; WHEREAS urban neighborhoods often have dense and complex conditions that can make TTCM projects challenging and time consuming to plan and implement; WHEREAS these factors can make it difficult to spend all TTCM funds within the year or term in which they are received, even where projects have been approved and are actively in planning; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT any TTCM funds committed to approved projects at the end of the term of council be conditionally retained to allow for implementation; THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT undedicated TTC surpluses be returned to the Road Safety Reserve at the end of a term of Council as proposed in Recommendation 5.

WHEREAS speeding continues to be one of the most significant road‑safety concerns raised by residents across the City of Ottawa, particularly in residential neighbourhoods and school zones where vulnerable road users, including children, are at heightened risk; and WHEREAS recent City data has shown a substantial increase in speeding in school zones, with compliance dropping from 87 percent to 41 percent within a 12‑week period following the removal of Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) cameras, and high‑end speeding increasing from 0.3 percent to over 4 percent during the same period; and WHEREAS speed data is an important input in understanding risk related to more serious collisions; and WHEREAS the city’s current approach to collecting speed data is limited and does not provide a full picture of speeds across the roadway network, and WHEREAS other jurisdictions across Canada and internationally are increasingly incorporating innovative, technology‑enabled, and data‑driven approaches—including, predictive analytics, and AI‑supported monitoring systems—to inform their road safety programs; and WHEREAS the City of Ottawa is currently undertaking work to update the Road Safety Action Plan, which will guide the road safety priorities for the next term of Council; and WHEREAS this work presents an opportunity to modernize and strengthen the inputs used to make informed data-driven decisions about road safety; THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT staff, through the update to the City’s R