December 6, 2023 - Tonight is your chance to share your opinion on the future of cycling in your neighbourhood. The City of Toronto is currently planning where to build new cycling infrastructure between 2025 and 2027.

Under Mayor Tory, the city committed to building 100 km of new bikeways between 2022-2024, with proposed upcoming projects like Eglinton and Danforth-Kingston key to making it a reality.

But there are still too many parts of the city, especially in Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke, where a short bike trip can feel unsafe or impossible. To improve our network of cycling infrastructure, we need to close gaps, improve connections to transit, and continue expanding into the inner-suburbs.

In 2014 Olivia Chow proposed building 200 km of new bike lanes and more bike parking, especially at transit stations. These are still achievable and necessary targets today. Since then, cities like Montréal under Mayor Valérie Plante and Paris under Mayor Anne Hidalgo are making headlines and transforming communities by creating more liveable cities that embrace active transportation. With traffic violence and the climate crisis at a tipping point, we need an even more ambitious cycling network commitment from Mayor Chow today to meet the city’s VisionZero and TransformTO goals of 75% of school or work trips under 5 km to be walking, transit, or biking by 2030 – less than seven years away.

Cycle Toronto is working to make that happen.

We need your help. The city is holding a virtual public meeting open to all tonight, Wednesday, December 6 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm:

REGISTER NOW here.

The city’s transportation department staff will make a presentation on the process used in deciding cycling network priorities for 2025-2027. Staff will also be answering questions and collecting feedback through interactive tools and discussion.

Thank you for helping us build a safer cycling city for all.

Michael Longfield, Executive Director

Cycle Toronto