Join us Sun Nov 16 4:30pm at Queen's Park (South Lawn) for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. We are holding it at QP for the second year in a row because our govt continues to wage war on road safety, guaranteeing more violent death and devastation from car crashes.

Bike lanes are a proven traffic calming measure. Yet the province wants to ban municipalities from installing new ones under Bill 60. Is it possible none of this is about solving traffic congestion or making roads safer but purely just a bad faith culture war??

Bravo's motion to oppose the part of Bill 60 further restricting Toronto's ability to redesign roads CARRIES 14-1.

"People are frustrated being stuck in traffic. I get it. But, picking fights with cyclists and other vulnerable road users isn't part of the solution.” cc: @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Bill 60 will make our roads more dangerous for everyone. Thank you to Bike Ottawa for inviting me to speak at your rally this morning — keep the pressure on the provincial government and tell them to stop interfering in the work cities are doing to make life better and safer for people.

"For being the David to Ford’s Goliath" Cycle Toronto's executive director Michael Longfield named on @torontolifemag.bsky.social 's 50 Most Influential List as a symbol of our collective fight to save our bike lanes: torontolife.com/deep-dives/t...

Another day, another rally. Protesting Bill 60, which will removes tenant rights, prevents traffic safety improvements, and generally thinks the Province knows better than your local elected officials. Thanks to @cycletoronto.bsky.social, @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social and the folks who showed up.

Thanks to the 30 to 40 people who joined us for today's Bill 60 protest ride from Bloor and Spadina to the MTO office on Bay Street. Some people tried to go up to deliver Sarkaria's own report but security wouldn't let them in. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero

Ottawa 🤝 Toronto protesting in solidarity tomorrow morning. 🚲 ride in Toronto 📣 city hall rally in Ottawa 👇

Fantastic new member motion from Councillors Bravo & Saxe opposing the province's attempt to undermine municipality authority over its roads (including banning bike lanes) in Bill 60! Yes, you can comment! secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

THURSDAY!

Happy to join @cycletoronto.bsky.social in this fight. It’s not just a Toronto problem. This will have massive repercussions for all municipalities in Ontario. And on all of us who bike or would like to bike if it was safer.

Toronto 🤝 Ottawa = Fighting back against Bill 60!

Thurs we ride against Ford's attack on bike lanes, bus lanes, pedestrian safety, tenants rights & more! Omnibus bills that aim to distract & divide communities w many intersecting interests we need to all fight against! [https://www.cycleto.ca/bill_60_protest_ride](www.cycleto.ca/bill_60_prot...)

It isn't. Please send $9M to cycleto.ca/donate

Make no mistake. The bike lane provisions in Bill 60 are bad for Toronto. But they're WORSE for the rest of the province which to-date has been largely unscathed in Bill 212's aftermath. Kudos to @bikeottawa.bsky.social and advocates fighting back across Ontario. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

Here's the link to jump straight to the petition. www.horizonottawa.ca/back_off_ford

Bill 212 at least pretended it would set criteria for new bike lanes. Bill 60 drops the pretense. Cycle Toronto deputed at Executive Committee to warn about the poison pill that would take power away from people and their communities and give it to cars. www.youtube.com/live/Gult3x5...

Remember last year when the Ontario government promised they would "unveil a plan to work with our municipal partners around the province" to develop a "common sense, evidence-based bike lane policy"? Here's their plan: roads are for cars.

We'll be at Executive Committee today highlighting how Bill 60 would also expand and escalate Bill 212. Controlling how municipalities plan and build their cycling networks wasn’t enough; now Queen’s Park is making explicit to Ontarians that roads are for cars. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

The omnibus Bill 60 is (almost) impressive how many terrible proposals it's bundling together that will make life worse for Ontarians. And still hurting from their court defeat, Ford believes packaging it as more bikes v cars culture war is a 905 political winner. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Doug Ford’s new omnibus bill hides a major gift to corporate lobbyists: a ban on turning car lanes into bike lanes. @desaima.bsky.social notes that the move mirrors demands from the Toronto Region Board of Trade. It won’t fix traffic—but it will keep oil companies and Uber happy.

@breachmedia.ca on Ontario banning bike lanes "...more cyclists and pedestrians will be killed by cars, and more carbon emitted on our roads will intensify climate change. And traffic won’t even get better" breachmedia.ca/ontarios-plan-to-ban-bike-lanes-is-ripped-from-the-business-lobbys-wish-list/

“In plain English, Ford’s government is once again trying to handcuff cities and erase years of progress on making roads safer and more livable.” 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Say it louder for the people in the provinces, please @cycletoronto.bsky.social

What the hell, Ontario? 🇨🇦 Doug Ford, who was refused chance to rip out city bike lanes, moves to *ban* any road remodelling which reduces space for cars. bsky.app/profile/mome...

This is another gross jurisdictional overreach from a government that feels no shame peddling false statements. Doug Ford’s Toronto is a shortcut for cars to drive through unimpeded, not a city of vibrant communities where people live and thrive.

Opinion: Ontario Government Set to Ban Bike Lanes Proving Stupid is as Stupid Does. momentummag.com/opinion-onta...

Bill 212 wasn't enough. Now the Government of Ontario plans to handcuff municipalities from making meaningful decisions about their roads and block the construction of any new bike lanes that would involve road reconfigurations. Read more: www.cycleto.ca/ontario_bann...

"The first lesson: move fast and fix things". Toronto did exactly this under outgoing GM Barbara Grey during the first year of the pandemic rebalancing streets for people with CafeTO, RapidTO, and ActiveTO. But Toronto chose to not keep building back better but instead return to status quo.

Three crucial cycling projects outside the downtown core are up for public consultation next week: Kingston Rd - Mon, Oct 27 Trethewey Dr - Wed, Oct 29 Rathburn Rd - Thu, Oct 30 If any (or all) of these projects speak to you, please join us in person. www.cycleto.ca/events

Last weekend saw a lot of road closures in Toronto. Great to see ambulances using bike lanes to get people in distress where they need to go quickly. The trope touted by Ford and his like that bike lanes delay EMS response times has been proven false time and time again. #bikelanessavelives

Protect our Rights, Protect our Streets Cycle Toronto organized a rally to mark the one year anniversary of Bill 212. We gathered at the same place where the rally on the eve of the successful charter challenge to Bill 212 was this past April. Michael Longfield reminds us that the government is…

Thank you to everyone who came out to tonight's ride and rally on the one-year anniversary of Bill 212. We're not done fighting to protect our streets and your rights. cc: @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social 📸: @jnyyz.bsky.social jnyyz.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/p...

Running across my friends from @cycletoronto.bsky.social on the way home! Look at how many bikes there are.

Just for a friendly reminder, @cycletoronto.bsky.social's Bill 212 One Year Anniversary Rally is happening TOMORROW! Meet 5:30 PM at University & Armoury followed by a short roll to Queen's Park. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero

Public consultations for Sloane Avenue Road Safety Improvements happening tonight, Monday, October 20. Find out more: www.cycleto.ca/events

JOIN us Saturday, Oct 18 for a group ride to Deputy Mayor Morley's Fall Fest! Departs at 11am for all ages and abilities roll. (Maybe your last chance to ride the Bloor West bikeways before they're reconfigured?) www.cycleto.ca/ride_to_fall_fest_20251018

This is such an important connection. Basically unlocks Weston and a chunk of Etobicoke beyond it. Right now the ride along Trethewey is worse than trying to pronounce it.

Best news of the day? The Trethewey Drive Cycling Connections project isn't a Bill 212 casualty and public consultations are happening October 29! First impressions we are very intrigued by this updated proposal for bidirectional cycle tracks which arguably suit the characteristics of the road.

School Zone Safety Summit happening at Toronto City Hall in support of automated speech enforcement program, including presentations from the VisionZero team and Dr Linda Rothman. Speed kills. And the risk isn't linear. It's quadratic. Thank you @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca

Story in @theglobeandmail.com about our client who was seriously injured near Ottawa. But for his daughter & our team he would have been deemed at fault. We used GPS data from his bike computer to prove the driver was at fault & police got it wrong: www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/cultur...

One Million #BikeTO riders at Bloor and Palmerston so far this year. As of midnight last night 10% higher than last year and almost 40% higher than 2 years ago (Unverified)

The iPhone … YouTube … and bike share! Montreal's bicycle-sharing system BIXI has been named among the top 25 inventions of the past 25 years by TIME magazine. cultmtl.com/2025/10/bixi...

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Join us Tuesday, October 21 for the one-year anniversary of Bill 212. Together, we’ll tell Ontario that streets are for people, and rights are not negotiable. www.cycleto.ca/oct_21_rally

@cycletoronto.bsky.social wins @velocanadabikes.bsky.social’s National Cycling Advocate of the Year award for 2025 for successfully challenging Bill 212. A much deserved award. Congratulations! 👏

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal "Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport." www.economist.com/internationa...

Wow! Montreal’s public bike share system (BIXI) was featured in the TIME Best Inventions Hall of Fame for 2008, not far from the iPhone and Google Street View. While not the very first bike sharing system, it was one of the earliest and it was the model for many other systems, from NYC to London.