
Official account of the Bicycle Mayor of Toronto @BYCS_org Position currently held by Alison Stewart. She/They. Bilingue FR/EN [email protected] 🚲
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Bicycle Mayor of Toronto retweeted
Download the Toronto Cycling Year in Review to learn more about bikeway installations and upgrades in 2024, @bikeshareTO milestones, winter cycling patterns, the award-winning road safety campaign, and results from the 2023 cycling public opinion survey. toronto.ca/wp-content/upload…
Toronto needs more on-street bike storage like this! #BikeTO
Bicycle Mayor of Toronto retweeted
This @theJagmeetSingh is 13 years old and is the best political campaign video I’ve seen. There are no words or slogans. It is the simple and joyful action of biking. Bramalea-Gore-Malton bikes. 🚲 youtu.be/_BUj-qUSv9o?si=sRLb… via @YouTube
Thank you @MomentumMag for giving my initiative, Femmes and Friends. This collaborative community of women, through co-creation, are spreading the culture and joy of biking - and having a of fun doing it. 🤩🤸🏽♂️🚲☮️ #GenderEquality #WomensRights #BikeTO momentummag.com/bicycle-mayo…
Bike lanes accommodate a range of abilities and mobilities. While it is uncomfortable to have mopeds proliferate bike lanes (not legal in cycle tracks), their use should support expanding width & design micro mobility vs. attack a vulnerable class of worker. #BikeTO
It might come as a shock to @reggcohn but bike lanes benefit everyone: workers, students, seniors, children & 🚗 drivers. Minimizing the use of bike lanes by disregarding the travel needs of @GigWorkersUnite is ignorant & racist. #TOpoli thestar.com/politics/politic…
This is an uplifting video by @OhUrbanity on how to design cities for children which benefit the whole community at large.
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👇🏼Mark your calendars for a fun annual holiday tradition. I look forward to joining a colourful cast of characters and will be handing out homemade cookies. 🍪 #BikeTO
Guess who's coming to town!! 5th annual Cycling Good Cheer ride with Santa, reindeer, elves, The Grinch, Snowperson, @BicycleMayorTO, Kidical Mass, @BromptoningLove & many others. ALL are welcome! Sun, Dec 8, noon. Check for start times from 4 locations. communitybikewaysto.ca/event…
The people most impacted by policies that make it unsafe to bike, walk or access public transportation are women, children, elderly and people from equity deserving communities. Sharing the lane with motor vehicles is not comfortable or safe. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli
I’m not comfortable referring to war (unless it a military conflict operation), but @shawnmicallef outlines the facts around the politics of improving 🚲 lanes. Forcing cyclists to mix with traffic is ⚠️ & will slow traffic. #ONpoli thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
Today we’re gathering once again to protect our bike lanes. Women, children & equity deserving communities are particularly impacted by a lack of safe cycling infrastructure. We’ll be dazzling @jsquaredink & joining @Yonge4All @FightForBikes and #BikeTO
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Dear Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation),
My 10-year-old son was identified with a need last year and had to change public schools.
I now bike him 2.2km to school in the mornings and he bikes home alone.
We use the 8-year-old Bloor Street bike lanes which make the roads safe for him to do this.
With the roads full of Amazon delivery vans, speeding Ubers, massive buses, and whizzing food delivery e-bikes my son was nervous to bike alone.
We got him a rear view mirror and bike lights and practiced together a few times.
He uses the Bloor Street bike lanes which are full of many other kids riding to and from school.
You are now proposing to spend $48M in provincial taxpayer money (1) to overrule the wishes of the City of Toronto (2, 3, 4) to rip out these bike lanes, which you know pose a direct safety threat. (5)
If this happens we’ll need to ask his grandfather to pick him up in his car.
I’ll likely start driving him in the morning more since his grandfather's car can’t fit his bike on the way home.
Instead of what we need and want—*more* bike lanes that are proven to ease congestion, traffic, and pollution (6)—you’re proposing I spend more money, use more gas, spew more fumes, get less exercise, and create more car traffic.
In 2017 you spoke about bike lanes on @TVO and said: "You're nervous when there's no bike lanes. At least I was. We have to make sure there's never a death in the city. One death is way too many when it comes to bicycle riders. I felt so much safer when it's separated." (7)
Please reverse course here.
Keep the bike lanes.
It’s not too late.
Thank you,
Neil Pasricha
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(1) cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/r…
(2) cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/t…
(3) thestar.com/news/olivia-chow…
(4) cycleto.ca/ilovebikelanes
(5) thestar.com/politics/provinc…
(6) epub.wupperinst.org/frontdoo…
(7) instagram.com/p/DAV_NkJxi7J/
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CC: Ontario Minister of Transportation Prabmeet Sarkaria (@PrabSarkaria), Ontario MPP Marit Stiles (@MaritStiles), Ontario MPP Jessica Bell (@JessicaBellTO), Ontario MPP Chris Glover (@chrisgloverndp), Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow (@oliviachow), Toronto Councillor Alejandro Bravo (@bravodavenport), Toronto Councillor Dianne Saxe (@DianneSaxxe), Doctors for Safe Cycling (@Docs4Cycling), Cycle Toronto (@CycleToronto) Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland), Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau), Jon Haidt (@JonHaidt), Lenore Skenazy (@FreeRangeKids), and Jeff Speck (@JeffSpeckFAICP)
Ontario’s government may be resolute in adopting Bill 212, an Act that includes 🤩 removing 🚲 lanes, but we are not going to stop advocating for safe infrastructure that protects people🚶🏽👨🏻🦼👨🏾🦯🏃🏾♀️➡️🧍🏽♀️. Let’s ride! 🪩💃🏻@jsquaredink @BromptoningLove
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I am thankful that Toronto has leadership in @MayorOliviaChow @DianneSaxe @CllrAmberMorley We must protect Toronto's democratic right to protect our most vulnerable road users and workers who rely on bike lanes to get to where there need to go.#TOpoli
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In my view, Bill 212 is covertly policy that is grounded in racism, misogyny and oppression by discounting the needs and safety of populations of mostly women, racialized and low income people who rely on public transit, biking and walking to get around. womeninurbanism.ca/words/ped…
👇🏼Reminder: I hope to see #BikeTO at tomorrow’s student led rally at 2pm at Christie Pits. #TOpoli #ONpoli
The future of our democracy, road safety and climate action is at risk. 🌎🚲
👇🏼Support students who are protesting for their safety and future. I look forward to joining them and #BikeTO on Saturday Nov 9 at 2pm at Christie Pits.
@bikemayorwat @BikewaysTO @CycleToronto @bikebrampton @TOeastCyclists @TheBikingLawyer @BikeLawCanada @MomentumMag
👇🏼Support students who are protesting for their safety and future. I look forward to joining them and #BikeTO on Saturday Nov 9 at 2pm at Christie Pits.
@bikemayorwat @BikewaysTO @CycleToronto @bikebrampton @TOeastCyclists @TheBikingLawyer @BikeLawCanada @MomentumMag
Sharing for those who want to be involved in more direction actions against Bill 212. This one is organized by UofT students: fightforbikes.org
Bicycle Mayor of Toronto retweeted
I Light HFX bike ride this evening starting and ending at the west end of University Ave
#BikeHFX
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The past few weeks have been heavy for #BikeTO because of the provincial government’s move to both stall the implementation of, and remove existing bike lanes. This morning I’ll be riding with @RespectTO for a mourning festival. 🙏🏼🚲✊🏼🫶🏼
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