Transportation Planning

Transportation planners have as a primary concern the improvement of mobility for the benefit of society. We believe that the effective and dynamic development on the efficient, safe, comfortable, and convenient movement of people and goods. To realise this belief LEA has assembled an experienced team of professionals in each of the key modal areas of transportation. We provide these skills to our clients around the world, at all times striving for quality with creativity.

LEA offers the following services:

• National, regional and urban transportation studies
• Multimodal transportation studies
• Corridor analysis and route selection
• Environmental and social impact analysis
• Functional planning and design
• Traffic and transit impact analysis
• Access and parking analysis
• Development planning
• Traffic operations and management

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Yonde/Dundas Redevelopment Project • In 1996 the City of Toronto Council adopted a program to regenerate and revitalize lower Yonge St. in downtown Toronto, the City’s main shopping street. The vicinity of the Yonge/Dundas intersection is a prominent location and the City chose this location to promote a public/private partnership to provide good quality premises and a better environment on the street for retail and entertainment facilities.
Loblaws Food Store, 650 Dupont Street • IPCF, the real estate development arm of Loblaws grocers wished to redevelop the old Weston Bakery site located at Dupont and Christie Streets in the City of Toronto for a Loblaws supermarket. Lea, previously retained to provide transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting services, were also retained to provide Municipal servicing, stormwater management and storm drainage designs together with the design and construction supervision for road widening and intersection improvements and signalization on Dupont Street including all the necessary municipal and agency approvals.
North Leslie Secondary Plan Area Transportation Study • LEA Consulting Ltd. was retained to prepare a comprehensive Transportation Study in support of the Official Plan Amendment and the required Secondary Plan
Wal-Mart Truck Distribution Centre • LEA Consulting Ltd. was retained by Metrus Properties Ltd. to provide Transportation Planning services in order to develop a Supply Chain Management (SCM) Truck Distribution Centre. The SCM facility would be an automated “state-of-the-art” complex, to collect and sort goods for delivery to approximately 100 Wal-Mart stores in the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario.
Sherway Gardens Shopping Centre Expansion • The Sherway Gardens Shopping Centre Expansion is a component of the Sherway Centre Secondary Plan Area, for which a development program was identified.
Morningside Heights Community Development • Morningside Heights, comprising approximately 750 acres, was one of the last large tracts of undeveloped land within the City of Toronto, bound by Finch Ave, Steeles Ave, Tapscott Rd and the Rouge River. An application was submitted to the City of Toronto by the Owners to develop approximately 3,000 homes, and business park uses.
New Province Homes - Residential Development • Metrus Development Inc. retained LEA Consulting Ltd. to provide transportation planning and traffic engineering services for the development of their planned residential community of 1,400 homes, located in the Bronte Community of Oakville, east of Burloak Drive and south of the Queen Elizabeth Way.
Taunton North Secondary Plan Study • LEA in association with Lorelei Jones and Associates and Gartner Lee Ltd. was engaged by the Town of Whitby to provide engineering services for the preparation of the Municipal Services and Stormwater Management Component for the Secondary Plan Study of the Taunton North Community.
West Toronto Mainline Connection • LEA was retained by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in November 1997 to investigate the feasibility and approval requirements of constructing a rail connection between their MacTier and Galt/West Toronto Subdivisions in the City of Toronto. The two lines cross in the area known as the Toronto Junction, which also contains rail lines belonging to CN Rail, VIA Rail and GO Transit.
SmartRide LRT • Highway congestion and insufficient or inconvenient transit options make travelling increasingly more time consuming, frustrating and dangerous. LEA Conulting Ltd. is part of the SmartRide LRT consortium, a private sector group of leading Candian and international companies developing a solution to the gridlock problem in the GTA.