Toronto will no longer install new bike lanes on Eglinton Avenue between Keele Street and Mount Pleasant Road, as originally planned, given the Ford government’s restrictions under Bill 60, the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, passed in November 2025 reports Toronto Today.
The city awarded the contract for some of the lanes before the bill’s passage and a small portion of the new lanes — between Chaplin Crescent and Avenue Road — was completed.
There was a carve-out in the Bill 60 legislation for projects where construction contracts had already been awarded, but because the city decided to wait until the Eglinton Crosstown LRT was open (Feb 2026), a new contract to complete the remaining stretch of bike lanes was needed, according to Jacquelyn Hayward, director of strategic policy and programs with the City of Toronto.
So while the small portion of existing lanes can remain, the ambitious plan to build out Eglinton Avenue as a cycling corridor will not come to fruition.
It was a “costly error,” claimed Michael Longfield, head of Cycle Toronto blaming the provincial crackdown and the city’s “lack of urgency” on moving forward with construction.
Cycle Toronto is organizing a Rally and Ride for Eglinton Redux on June 2 at 6pm to show support for a Complete Street through midtown. Afterwards attend the Eglinton & Allen Intersection Study Public Consultation drop-in from 6-9 PM at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute (730 Eglinton W).
Read more in Toronto Today here and about the Rally and Ride here.
