The Line 3 Scarborough Rapid Transit (SRT) has surpassed its life expectancy and is planned to be decommissioned by Q4 2023. The Scarborough Subway Extension (SSE) will ultimately replace the service in 2030. An interim bus replacement plan, to service the SRT's 35,000 daily customers with on street express buses at a combined frequency of up to 70 buses per hour, was developed and subsequently approved by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) board in April 2022, including proposals to install transit priority measures on the road network. Transportation Services is now requesting approval, on behalf of the TTC, to install transit priority measures (TPMs) to support the on-street express bus replacement service. The approved route connects customers between Kennedy Station and Scarborough Town Centre Station with intermediate stops at Kennedy Road, Ellesmere Road and Midland Avenue. A suite of transit priority measures are proposed to support the bus replacement service plan: (1) priority bus lanes on Kennedy Road, Ellesmere Road, Midland Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East designed as a one-way loop routing between Kennedy Station and Scarborough Town Centre Station — (2) queue-jump lane on southbound Brimley Road at Ellesmere Road — (3) left-turn lanes exclusive to TTC buses — (4) transit signal priority — and (5) stopping and turning prohibitions. The City and TTC will collect transit and traffic data to monitor bus operations and make necessary adjustments to improve transit service and to generally reduce impacts on road users. The monitoring program will inform decisions on the viability of retaining the TPMs after the SSE is operational as part of the long-term vision for surface transit in Scarborough envisaged by the emerging RapidTO program. The bus replacement service will continue operating on-street until either the existing SRT right-of-way between Kennedy Station and Ellesmere Station is converted to a dedicated busway (subject to funding availability) or the SSE begins service, whichever occurs first. As TTC operates bus service on Kennedy Road, Ellesmere Road, Brimley Road, Triton Road, Midland Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East, City Council approval of this report is required.
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