March 16, 2026 - Bike Share Toronto saw a 40% increase in individual riders in 2025 compared to 2024 and the City of Toronto is expanding the program and is adding 200 more e-bikes, 350 e-docks, and 750 regular bikes reports CBC and other outlets.
E-bikes delivered over twice as many trips-per-day as regular bikes in 2025 and the program also saw a 10% increase in total rides taken, with a total of 7.8 million trips last year, according to Bike Share Toronto’s annual operating report.
About 231,000 people who used bike share last year were first time riders, a 39% jump from 2024. According to Raktim Mitra, an urban planning professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, e-bikes may be particularly popular because they make longer-distance rides more accessible to new or beginner cyclists.
“I think it shows there’s just really a big demand for more people to get outside, to get biking, to have more options,” Michael Longfield, executive director of cycle advocacy group Cycle Toronto, told CBC.
The program is also testing 100 prototype electric bikes that swap the existing three-gear setup in favour of technology that automatically adapts to the rider’s speed and terrain reports Toronto Today.
Other improvements include connection to the Internet of Things, allowing real-time location data and opening the door to mid-trip digital locking, along with new “pillar lock” stations that only need the front wheel inserted before two pins automatically secure the bike.
