Our Campaign

We Belong on Bloor is our campaign, launched in early 2021, to support the extension of the Bloor West Complete Street - including a protected bike lane - from Runnymede Road to Kipling Ave (and beyond).

On June 5, 2023, Toronto’s Infrastructure and Environment Committee’s (IEC) approved city staff’s recommendation to proceed with the extension. City Council at large then approved the extension on June 14th by a margin of 21-1.

The extension will be installed this year and run between Runnymede Road and Aberfoyle Crescent (constituting a 3.7 km extension), and next year to Resurrection Road (constituting an addition 1 km extension), where bike lanes are already in place at Six Points.

Our campaign will then move to advocate for the Complete Street extension to the city boundary with Mississauga.

How You Can Help

Email or phone your local councillor to say that you support the Bloor West Complete Street Extension. You might mention any of the following reasons, beginning with a safer roadway, as well as:

  • A vibrant, enjoyable, and more pleasant street;

  • Lower speeds --- by design --- as a result of the narrowed motorway;

  • Safer intersections, with shorter crossing distances for pedestrians;

  • Bike lanes that protect people on bikes, and buffer the sidewalk;

  • Space for summertime cafes; and

  • Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from lower motor traffic.

You can learn more about the plan from the May 19 staff report, and you can find your ward and the councillor’s contact information here.

In the meantime, please thank any or all members of the IEC to thank them for supporting the staff recommendation:

(Interested in learning more about the longest and most important road safety advocacy battle in Toronto's history? Read more here. And if you have any questions, please email us.)

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Header image created by Sahel Alsabouni