Tag: BikeLaneBlockedBy
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How drivers lost all these lanes
February 2025, no single plate here, just the pattern: Ford cancelled Hamilton’s funded LRT, swapped Scarborough’s light rail for a subway, bused the riders, then banned bike lanes. Ban them and cyclists ride in front of cars, because a bike and an SUV can’t share one lane — as Ontario’s 1-metre passing law already admits.…
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Drivers learn what losing bike lanes means to them
Shot on February 26, 2025. With the bike lane ripped out, a bike and a truck cannot safely share one lane, so the cyclist belongs out front at bike speed – Ontario passed the 1-metre passing law because it knows that clearance is necessary. Doug Ford calls this faster roads. #BikeLaneBlockedBy
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Showing drivers what removing the Bloor bike lanes means
On Bloor Street on February 26, 2025, with the bike lanes gone, cyclists ride in the traffic lane and drivers sit behind them — exactly what Doug Ford’s bike lane ban looks like from the road. A cyclist and an SUV cannot safely share one lane, and Ontario’s 1-metre passing law already admits that. #BikeLaneBlockedBy
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University Avenue drivers feel the bikelane ban
On University Avenue, cars were squeezed into a single lane while drivers explained what Doug Ford’s bike lane ban did to their commute. With the lane banned, a cyclist must ride slowly IN FRONT of cars they can’t safely share a lane with — and Ontario’s 1-metre passing law exists precisely because that clearance is…
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Christine Hogarth is out
Ontario tore out the lanes and banned new ones, so cyclists ride slowly in front of traffic — the province’s own 1-metre passing law proves it knows a bike and a car can’t share one lane. Ford won reelection anyway; Christine Hogarth, the MPP who deleted the Bloor lane, lost hers, and cyclists took some…
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Bloor Street drivers swerve into oncoming traffic after Doug Ford’s bike lane ban
On Bloor Street cyclists ride slowly in front of traffic, and drivers swerve into oncoming traffic to pass them — a bike and an SUV cannot safely share one lane, which is why Ontario’s 1-metre passing law exists. Doug Ford banned the bike lanes anyway; drivers are paying in tickets and slower commutes. #BikeLaneBlockedBy
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Christine Hogarth’s Bloor Street bike lane ban backfired
Toronto cyclists, wheelchair users and drivers took Bloor Street to protest the bike lane ban MPP Christine Hogarth pushed hard. Now riders crawl in front of cars that cannot safely pass them — Ontario passed the 1-metre rule because that clearance is necessary — and drivers eat the tickets. #BikeLaneBlockedBy
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Why aren’t you in a bike lane
On April 3, 2025 in Toronto, drivers are asked why they don’t see bicycles in the bike lane. Doug Ford ripped the lanes out, so a cyclist rides slowly in front of traffic — a car and a bicycle cannot safely share one lane, and Ontario’s 1-metre passing law proves that clearance is necessary. #BikeLaneBlockedBy
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People do not want bike lanes on Bloor
On April 12, 2025, people took over the Bloor Street bike lane to show what Toronto becomes once Doug Ford bans it. With the lane gone a cyclist must ride slowly IN FRONT of cars: a car and a bicycle cannot safely share one lane — Ontario’s 1-metre passing law proves it. #BikeLaneBlockedBy
