Mayor John Tory says the city’s Road Closures Coordination Committee has started to hammer out a schedule that will improve the flow of traffic downtown during the busy summer months.

The newly-formed committee met for the second time Friday and Tory says they have begun to create a schedule that takes events, such as Blue Jay games and marathons, into consideration when deciding when to slot in TTC and road closures.

“We are actually sitting at the same table, making sure everybody is discussing these things at the same time,” Tory told reporters after Friday’s meeting.

City staff, according to the mayor, has been speaking with event organizers to negotiate moving certain events to different weekends in order to accommodate the new schedule. He also said annual maintenance of the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway has been scheduled in a way that is "considerate" to events like the Pan Am Games.

Additionallly, the mayor said he has requested that crews speed up the annual maintenance work so that the Gardiner and Don Valley Parkway don't need to be closed for an entire weekend.

During the mayoral campaign, Tory was very critical of the lack of coordination with TTC closures and scheduled road maintenance.

When the closure of Lakeshore Boulevard was scheduled at the same time as some major long-term construction projects on the Gardiner, Tory called the move “grossly insensitive.”

Tory said he formed the coordination committee in order to avoid those types of situations in the future.

“I think the exercise is working successfully. It is not going to achieve perfection but it will achieve a schedule agreed upon far enough in advance,” he said.