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“On a normal Wednesday afternoon, Adam Rodgers loads his five-year-old daughter onto the rear seat of his Tern cargo bike, and together they rattle along Toronto’s pockmarked bike lanes to her swimming lessons.”

“Cyclists challenging Ontario’s plan to remove major Toronto bike lanes are asking Canada’s top court to hear their appeal.”

“One person was led away in handcuffs by police after protesters on Wednesday morning briefly halted work on the removal of the controversial Bloor Street bike lanes in Etobicoke.”

“National Post contributor Ben Woodfinden has already given our readers a terrific summary of the Ontario Court of Appeal’s exasperated overturning of last summer’s grotesque bike-lane ruling in Cycle Toronto v.”

“Justice Paul Schabas of the Ontario Superior Court arrived at this conclusion last year in hearing out the advocacy group Cycle Toronto, which had complained about the Ontario government’s plan to remove a bike lane along a major thoroughfare downtown.”

“The Ontario government is now free to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes on its busiest streets after the region’s top court ruled in favour of the province on Friday, overturning a lower court’s decision that decreed removal would violate constitutional rights.”

“Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford, for example, is calling for the removal of various busways and bike lanes.”

“A 29-year-old Toronto man was charged after police say he interfered with work to remove bike-lane barriers during an ongoing demonstration against the removal.”

“The removal of bike lanes in Toronto will surely serve as a motivator for many voters in the municipal election that’s a little over a week away.”

“Is the bike lane battle in Toronto settled?”

“Battle over Toronto bike lanes intensifies Cyclists asked the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a ruling that allowed Doug Ford’s Ontario government to proceed with a law ordering the removal of bike lanes along three major roads – Bloor Street, University…”

“The Etobicoke removal is the first phase of the Ford government’s plan to eliminate approximately 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes across Toronto, a move that has been legally challenged by cycling advocates and remains deeply polarizing.”

“Rowlands, who cycles regularly, said of the planned bike lane removals.”

“…eave out the fact that Bradford supports removing protected bike lanes on Bloor Street, University Avenue and Yonge Street, something that will put the safety of many Toronto residents at risk, given the numerous studies that have demonstrated protected bike…”

“In another recent case, ABC Toronto, a political advocacy group that formed as a conservative-leaning version of Progress Toronto, used what appears to be an AI-generated image to oppose the University Avenue bike lanes back in May.”

“The destruction of bike lanes is bad enough, but the province’s removal of speed cameras — against the wishes of municipalities — has truly made life worse for the vast proportion of us who are not Lewis Hamilton.”

“The two have clashed over his plans to put a waterpark and spa at Ontario Place on the waterfront, his decision to rip out some downtown bike lanes and his desire to expand the Billy Bishop airport on Toronto Island to accommodate jet planes.”

“Removing speed cameras and bike lanes — making us less safe — for the sake of a few votes is ethically criminal.”