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TorontoCycle Toronto and its co-applicants have filed to seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada over Ontario's plans to rip out 19 kilometres of bike lanes on three major arterial roads. Removal of Etobicoke section of Bloor Street W. bike lanes set to start TuesdayKate McGillivray · CBC News · Posted: Oct 13, 2026 12:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 14Listen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Toronto cyclists take fight over Ford’s bike lane removal to Supreme CourtOctober 13|Duration 2:20Cycle Toronto and co-applicants said Tuesday they will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to stop Ontario’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major Toronto roads. As CBC’s Mercedes Gaztambide explains, advocacy group leaders argue the move threatens cyclist safety, while the province maintains removing the lanes will ease traffic congestion.

Cycling advocates and allies continue to voice their opposition against the removal of bike lanes in Etobicoke, gathering on sidewalks with signs, chanting “bike lanes save lives” for a fourth day, even as work crews steadily dismantled cycling infrastructure along Bloor Street West. While they seemed resigned to the reality that the lanes are coming out, advocates said it is still important to speak up against the precedent being set by the Province’s decision to remove safe cycling infrastructure in the area.

Demonstrators trying for a second day to block roadwork to remove Toronto bike lanes were met by police on Wednesday, deepening a faceoff between Premier Doug Ford’s government and cycling advocates. The work comes as the province pressed ahead with its plan to overhaul up to 19 kilometres of the city’s protected bike lane network, starting on the premier’s home turf in Etobicoke. The province has framed it as a traffic relief measure, but critics say it’s an example of provincial overreach that will make streets less safe, and no less congested. A protest Tuesday night ended peacefully when construction crews were escorted from Bloor Street by police and demonstrators chanted “get home safe” to the workers in trucks carrying stacks of pylons. But at Wednesday afternoon’s protest, at least one demonstrator in a green bike helmet was led away in handcuffs by two police officers. Nearby, a worker in high-visibility vests took down a bike lane sign. Bike lane protest arrest Police arrest a protester at a protest in support of bike lanes as workers begin to remove the lanes along Bloor Street West in Toronto on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026.

Demonstrators trying for a second day to block roadwork to remove Toronto bike lanes were met by police on Wednesday, deepening a faceoff between Premier Doug Ford’s government and cycling advocates. The work comes as the province pressed ahead with its plan to overhaul up to 19 kilometres of the city’s protected bike lane network, starting on the premier’s home turf in Etobicoke. The province has framed it as a traffic relief measure, but critics say it’s an example of provincial overreach that will make streets less safe, and no less congested. A protest Tuesday night ended peacefully when construction crews were escorted from Bloor Street by police and demonstrators chanted “get home safe” to the workers in trucks carrying stacks of pylons. But at Wednesday afternoon’s protest, at least one demonstrator in a green bike helmet was led away in handcuffs by two police officers. Nearby, a worker in high-visibility vests took down a bike lane sign. Bike lane protest arrest Police arrest a protester at a protest in support of bike lanes as workers begin to remove the lanes along Bloor Street West in Toronto on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026.