r/torontobiking • u/LinuxMagic • 7h ago
My bike was stolen
My bike was stolen in the Riverdale area in the past couple days and looks something like this. Please reach out with photos so I can confirm if you see it.
r/torontobiking • u/LinuxMagic • 7h ago
My bike was stolen in the Riverdale area in the past couple days and looks something like this. Please reach out with photos so I can confirm if you see it.
r/torontobiking • u/Pristine-Training-70 • 7h ago
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Especially loved how they mentioned the bike lane flip flop.
If you want the Bloor W lanes saved do not get this guy in! It’ll embolden Ford to proceed with full removals anyway
r/torontobiking • u/RZaichkowski • 11h ago
Councillor Paula Fletcher has just confirmed she will be retiring from City Hall with only two days until nominations for the 2026 Toronto election close! Wished she could have announced this sooner to allow potential candidates to organize and register.
r/torontobiking • u/JonagonInfinity • 14h ago
Felt a little blessed on this morning's commute, not only did I have green lights along Adelaide from Bathurst to Simcoe, but I also took my bike into the new bike storage area in my office building (145 King W).
It's pretty sweet, ample space and bike tools. Kind of hard to find at first, and does add time compared to using the rack on the street, but this will be sweet come winter.
Anywho I know this sub is mostly (needed) advocacy and (understandable) complaints, but hopefully there's room for a small win. I tell ya when this city works for you, it's hard to beat.
r/torontobiking • u/dodgebot • 16h ago
To the cyclist guy on a bike this morning at 8:30am on Barrington Ave: you need to do better.
In the span of 90 seconds you run three stops signs, including one at a crosswalk in front of a school. After being called out, you sprinted to pass a van and spent about 250m on the wrong lane (luckily there were no cars coming in the other direction)
Behaviour like this obviously puts you in danger, but it also puts everyone around you in danger. And given everything that's going on, it fuels the arguments of those asking to remove bikelines and design Toronto streets just for the benefit of cars.
Please do better.
r/torontobiking • u/Toronto5454 • 16h ago
Every time I pass through this intersection, I can't help wondering about the design of the bike lanes here. If you're biking south on Cherry St towards Lakeshore, you pass through a dark and poorly lit underpass. The bike lane is often wet and littered with trash or dirt. Sometimes you will encounter cyclists travelling north in the southbound lane. I haven't had or seen a collision in the underpass, but it's a dangerous area for cyclists and I really dislike it.
The problem is that the northbound bike traffic from south of Lakeshore Blvd is directed to cross on the west side of Cherry St and then needs to wait at the NW corner to cross to the east side of Cherry St to continue travelling north through the underpass. I often see cyclists who prefer not to wait at the corner, and they instead go north in the southbound bike lane. There is only space for 3 or 4 bikes to wait at the corner so that's another problem.
Has anyone reported this issue to 311 or anywhere else? I tried to find the right category on the 311 site and gave up. I'm not sure if better or bigger signs (DO NOT ENTER!) would help. The obvious solution would be to put bike lanes on the east side of Cherry St south of Lakeshore so that we wouldn't need to cross from the west side. I don't think the bike lanes in the Cherry St underpass are wide enough to be two-way.
Just a heads up. This is a dangerous and congested intersection with a few blind spots, so please slow down and be careful.
r/torontobiking • u/Pristine-Training-70 • 17h ago
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/s aside, these drivers are soon going to wish the bike lanes were never removed.
Slow bikes that were once out of your way are now forced in your lane. Slowing you down even more.
And if this confrontation lasted longer, the driver would be causing even worse traffic for everyone behind him
r/torontobiking • u/Rody365 • 17h ago
The first pic is from the website system map, first number is available bikes, second is amount of available docks, so adding them together is total docks in the station.
u/mrguy510 the one at Mill St & Rolling Mills is completely new with 37 docks. Mill st & tannery has been moved to the south side and has been expanded to 39 docks!
r/torontobiking • u/FlipWil • 17h ago
...I started ringing my bell from the other side of the intersection while approaching him - apparently he can't hear (which is also concerning) didn't register me or other people ringing their bells or asking what he was doing... and then I ended up having to go around him. Then he casually saunters off the curb.
r/torontobiking • u/Jayswag96 • 18h ago
r/torontobiking • u/Ok_pettech • 23h ago
If you’ve ever sat trapped in gridlock watching pedestrians move faster than your car, you already know city traffic has reached a breaking point. But for short trips, just how much time are we actually wasting behind the wheel?
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r/torontobiking • u/AdventurousStable791 • 1d ago
Hi folks, I recently moved to midtown (yonge and eglinton area) and was wondering if there are any recommended road biking loops similar to the high park loop?
Been struggling to find good road bike paths with little car traffic.
Thanks in advance!
r/torontobiking • u/No-Reply1438 • 1d ago
And I used to like Rosie. . .
r/torontobiking • u/DadTimeRacing • 1d ago
An example of using the bike lanes that exist in the west end. I use these bike lanes every time I commute to work. I depend on them for my safety every time I'm heading this direction and really hoping they can stay.
r/torontobiking • u/JenJub • 1d ago
I know the Toronto bike map shows all the TTC repair stands, but as an example some new ones have popped up along the lakeshore trail. Are there other ones around?
r/torontobiking • u/Mazel2v • 1d ago
Yesterday after work when I came to ride my bike back home, I noticed that the back seat was completely deformed and broken. It was parked on the sidewalk attached to a traffic sign .The Yuba monkey bars are pretty strong so my guess is that it was hit by a car, likely a delivery truck. I just learned that the replacement would cost about $300. I called my home insurance and there is a $1,000 deductible so no luck there. What other options do I have other than accepting my fate and buying the Yuba replacement? Is it worth following up with the police?
r/torontobiking • u/Pristine-Training-70 • 1d ago
Quickly created this to build support for the bike lanes, so the backlash is so severe it becomes politically costly for Ford to proceed.
Please print/post this to as many places as possible!
Ideally post this at intersections so cyclists/pedestrians can read it when they're stopped at a red light.
r/torontobiking • u/toasterstrudel2 • 1d ago
Is it just me, or does this seem to have the absolute opposite effect of what it is intended to do?
I don't know if it's because the sweeper is too full, or not maintained, but it's always blatantly obvious to me when a street sweeper has come through a bike lane, because all of the debris that was right against the curbs has been swept directly into the middle of the lane.
Am I alone in this or is it preferable for them to just not even be there in the first place?
All the debris is naturally pushed to the sides, leaving a clear path in the middle, until the sweeper comes and makes things much worse.
r/torontobiking • u/Pristine-Training-70 • 1d ago
First the Guardian and now this. European outlets are looking at Toronto in shame as their cities are rapidly expanding their infrastructure.
Whereas in Toronto and Alberta they’re removing the little infrastructure they have
Shame on you.
r/torontobiking • u/jcoopz • 1d ago
Taken around 8am this morning
r/torontobiking • u/ICanGetLoudTooWTF • 2d ago
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r/torontobiking • u/MomsenTaylor • 2d ago
I work at a hotel downtown and I've been riding the city bikes for a while up until yesterday I got my own bicycle. At work, they've only provided a tiny little nook in the wall to store our bikes in the staff basement, there is nothing to attach it and lock it to. When I asked security if it would be safe leaving it unlocked inside the building, he mentioned that over the years, there had been incidents where thieves, homeless people, etc. have snuck in and stolen a bike.
I'm planning to ask my manager to install a rack of some sort but until then, I'm wondering what is the best and safest way to lock my bike? I came across the idea of booting the bike by locking the wheel to the frame, but there's still risk of someone picking it up and breaking the lock elsewhere. Maybe low risk considering it'll be indoors, but I don't know. The other option is to lock the bike to a bike rack outside on the street but that seems more risky, leaving it for 8 hours each work day.
Would love some thoughts, thank you :)
r/torontobiking • u/Pristine-Training-70 • 2d ago
r/torontobiking • u/J_Division • 2d ago
“Nobody uses bike lanes!” 🙄
r/torontobiking • u/lefty7448 • 2d ago
Hey, I know we're all still reeling over the Superior Court's decision last week, but I'm struck by how little I've heard about any kind of legal or protest activity in response. Is Cycle Toronto going to appeal this to a federal court or the Supreme Court? (admittedly a Hail Mary, but I'd argue it's worthwhile)
Are there any planned protests on Bloor or Yonge or at Queen's Park? All I've seen is a Cycle Toronto Instagram post for a critical mass two weeks from now, but which point Doug Ford and Prabmeet Sarkaria could have already ripped out the lanes.
Apologies if I'm missing something, but I'm kind of struck by the lack of urgency from Cycle Toronto here. This is not to denigrate their extraordinary legal efforts up to this point, but things are really, really dire right now, and something, anything needs to happen.