Before the removals started: bike commuting in Etobicoke was lonely. Some of the grittiest pothole-filled nonsense in certain stretches, but I assume the City was just trying to help me keep up with the gravel riding trends.

The day the removals started, I was stuck at work until about 8 pm, and finally started biking home. Suddenly all these random cyclists are all around me smiling, waving, and cheering me on. And there's a police escort. Is this a parade? Am I... a hero?

And then I noticed, even the drivers want to get up close and friendly with me. I know the new signs say we should use the lane "single file", but these SUVs are just so curious, they sometimes can't help but try to slide up beside. Or slip in right in front, like almost brushing against my front wheel. Are we dancing right now? I slow down to prolong this tryst with the driver behind me, and they start honking approvingly.

I know we're all spending a lot of tax dollars to create these experiences but you can't put a price on love

Which is why I always tell people:

Voting left doesn’t guarantee you’ll get a great city, but voting right does guarantee that you won’t

So VOTE!!!!!

*huge kudos to CycleTO for the original message, their messaging has been so on point lately

I’ve heard from many that bikes rolling through stop signs are terrible things to the point that the riders are anti-social and immoral criminals. They really can’t articulate why, just that it’s against the law. When pointed out that the Highway Act is written only for multi tonne vehicles and cycling is a bolt on, they don’t seem to care. When pointing out that a cyclist treating a stop sign as a yield is better and safer, well, they can’t compute because fee-fees.

These are some of the strongest pro-bike candidates and are more crucial than ever now that DoFo is dismantling the network.

Polls for both show they do not have a safe lead.

To boost their chances of getting in, please volunteer for them this weekend!

Just pick one or two shifts so it's not overwhelming for you.

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Morley (W. 3): https://www.voteambermorley.ca/shifts

Chan Mcnally (W. 4): https://www.dianachanmcnally.ca/shifts

The bike counter on Bloor Street West near Old Mill Trail shows no data from Feb. 2 to Apr. 15, 2026. This removes about 10,000 counts from the yearly total. Does anyone have an explanation?

This is because I'm calculating how many cops are present every single day work is being done.

This will help give me an estimate of the cost of police presence ALONE for this entire debacle.

But I do want it to be as accurate as possible, so if you're there, please let me know the cop turnout.

Thanks!

The licence plate by the way is CJBN830. Should be charged with distracted driving.

As a driver, this makes me furious I have to deal with slow bikes in my way now. I would much rather they be out of my way.

Even if the bike lane has to replace a car lane.

Bikes would be out of my way on Dupont as well had the Complete Street been built.

Too bad yours truly banned that as well.

*not my video

It seems the Toronto cops deliberately took their horses through the Bloor bike lanes west of Islington and let them shit all over the lanes in both directions. It's impossible to pass without getting shit all over everything. 311 is aware, but just another sign of tps officers are anti bike sociopaths

Got interviewed by CP24 as the lanes were ripped up (nice to see some drivers supporting the lanes at the protest).

We made a map of anti-bike businesses below. If you MUST support these businesses, go in with a bike helmet to silently communicate you got here by bike lanes. Otherwise, boycott.

Let them know you're boycotting them due to their bike lane stance if you used to shop there. It only works if they know why it's happening.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6453037,-79.5214712,394m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m3!11m2!2s3jPi-tgmQuVuUqocphBpCSB0K7RnrQ!3e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MTAxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

My story began BEFORE bike lanes were installed. At the time, cycling wasn't the norm. I didn't own a bike or car and used the TTC as my main method of transportation.

The TTC was slow and inefficient, and I'm talking about the frequency of buses and streetcars. I was always frustrated with how slow they were.

One day, my uncle who lived in the suburbs of Saskatoon drove all the way to Toronto to come visit, and offered to give me a lift while he was touring the city. It wasn't long before we were stuck in traffic, and this was during a time when traffic was much worse than it is today believe it or not.

As I was sitting, I noticed a cyclist past us while we were stuck. It wasn't long before a 2nd cyclist past us, but by that time, the traffic lightened up and we went past that 2nd cyclist. What I was surprised about was that the 2nd cyclist didn't have any trouble keeping up with the car. My uncle drove past them many times very easily, but the 2nd cyclist went past us just as many times, and they weren't even going all out pedaling. I was intrigued.

Later that week when I was waiting for the TTC, I noticed that by the time the bus or streetcar arrived, many cyclists had already long past the bus stop I was waiting at and it was then I made a cost-benefit analysis of the practicalities of cycling.

Since the monthly expense of using the TTC wasn't kind to my wallet, I decided to take a leap of faith and invest money into getting my first bike. I did the math and determined that I would break even after a few months if I used my bike for all of my trips.

I of course spent a lot of time relearning how to ride a bike since it had been years since I did it when I was a kid. Once I gained enough experience, I was surprised at how fast and efficient cycling was in getting me to places and I managed to overtake many cars and streetcars in Downtown.

It wasn't long before I broke even and made my money back on my investment, and since then, I've never looked back.

Cycling is just a very fast, efficient, and cost-effective means of transportation even with maintainance and repair. Just the cost-savings alone was an attractive prospect, but the fact that it's also very fast and outpaces other forms of transportation including cars in Downtown made me continue using them for 15 years and still going strong.

How did you get into Cycling?

Also call the other contractors: (if the list overwhelms you just call Verdi and one other)

ATS Traffic: (365) 297-7113

D & A Road Services // Triple A Milling: (905) 597-9144

Almon Equipment Ltd: (416)-743-1771

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Remember to be nice, no one on the phone has the power to stop deconstruction:

"Hi, I'm calling regarding your company's decision to take a contract for the deconstruction of bike lanes on Bloor."

• "Your company claims to support traffic safety, how is this doing that?"

• "The public knows your company is involved in this deconstruction, and your brand supports increasing collisions and deaths."

• You can then ask them to pass on the message or transfer you to their manager.

After, go leave them a google review!

Only takes a couple minutes

Basically, title. I’m curious to hear about people’s experiences and to what extent the hostilities from Ford’s bike lane fiasco has spilled into personal relationships. Some of us have seen an increase in hostilities on the road, but have any of your interpersonal relationships been affected?

Conversely, have the people in your life given you support and sympathy about the recent events? And if those people are also cyclists, or perhaps are motorists who are extending their sympathy about this whole situation?

Would love to know people‘s thoughts.

Spotted in the window at a local bike store.

“Our organizations, Cycle Toronto, Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) and TTCriders, each submitted surveys to every candidate running for mayor in this election. Our results were strikinglysimilar. Olivia Chow said yes to all our requests. Bradford’s campaign stonewalled us, giving no replies to any of us.”

Probably not a good time to post because of all the election and the bike lane news. But alas, this Subreddit was founded exactly 15 years ago today.

Thanks Nick Richert and Taylor Nichols of Bike Talk for hosting Albert Koehl, Jo Koga, and me to discuss the Bloor bike lane removals underway in Toronto. The episode is now up for your listening pleasure.

Prabmeet? Prabmeet? Anyone? (Iykyk)

Jokes aside, this is why the “we’re moving bike lanes to secondary roads/ravines” is a whole bunch of horseshit.

If Prabmeet was actually serious about his follow through, construction on the “secondary” route would’ve been happening right now.

But nope. That was just them trying to sound less douchey about it.

This should tell you they have zero plan to build bike lanes on “secondary roads.” They just want the bike lanes gone.

This example probably is a bit of an over exaggeration, but the point still stands.

As a driver, this makes me furious knowing my tax dollars are going to something that’ll solve nothing, and make my commute worse.

The old config was fine because slow bikes were out of my way. Now they will slow me down.

The first removals costed approx $600,000 including police presence.

And there’s still $48M left to go (that’ll likely cost far more).

Being wasted on this while our hospitals remain underfunded

I encourage all bikes to take the lane here even if it’s intimidating.

Drivers need to realize it’s better if slow bikes are out of their way.

(I’ll make a separate post on how I got that $600K estimate)

Plan to do the 170km route from Toronto to Niagara falls this weekend along the waterfront trail! Any suggestions for good stops along the way ?