Brad Bradford vows to rip out hated Bloor St. bike lanes if elected mayor
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He’s ready to put a stick into the spokes of Toronto’s contentious west-end bike lanes.
Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday along Bloor St. W., Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford said he’d remove the newly installed cycle paths from the west-end street, giving them back to motorists.
“This is not an agenda to rip out every bike lane in the city — a city of more than 3 million people is going to have bike lanes, and it should,” Bradford told reporters.
“But where we build them, and how we build them, matters.”
The Bloor West bike lanes — a project Bradford voted in favour of in 2025 as a city councillor — have come under fire from both local residents and business owners, who say the lanes are contributing to Toronto’s gridlock crisis, as well as removing much-needed curbside parking, eliminating foot traffic for local shops, and making commercial deliveries impossible.
Court ruling, injunction prevented province from removing lanes
The lanes also survived an unsuccessful bid by the province to eliminate them through Bill 212 .
A mid-2025 court ruling sided with cycling advocates and struck down provincial removal mandates, leading to an injunction to keep the lanes as-is.
The Bloor bike lanes are also the subject of a $40 million lawsuit against the city, filed by impacted businesses.
Critics like Bradford say bike lanes should be relegated to parallel side streets, utility corridors or existing trails instead of taking lanes away from motorists.
“When I’m mayor of Toronto, the bike lanes on Bloor from South Kingsway to Resurrection Rd — they’re coming out and vehicle lanes are going back in,” Bradford said.
“That’s a commitment.”
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