We advocate for safe streets

for all ages and abilities

For decades London has built streets for cars, neglecting the safety of people walking and riding. We campaign for safe streets for all ages and abilities, so you can bike more and worry less. As more Londoners ride their bikes more, we’ll be healthier, wealthier, greener and safer. We actively work with City staff and politicians to transform our streets to safely accommodate people on bikes.

We continue to work on our four priorities for cycling in London. These include:

Infrastructure: a connected grid of safe, separated bike lanes reaching all neighbourhoods

Maintenance: all-season maintenance of bike lanes, paths and roadsides

Parking: increased safe, secure bike parking in all commercial areas

Bike Share: a city-wide bike share program

2022 Municipal ride-along campaign

In the summer and fall of 2022, during the lead-up to the municipal election, city council candidates were invited to ride bikes in their wards with trained volunteers, on specially selected routes. The discussion and routes focused on London Cycle Link's four priorities areas:

Infrastructure: a connected grid of safe, separated bike lanes reaching all neighbourhoods
Maintenance: all-season maintenance of bike lanes, paths and roadsides
Parking: increased safe, secure bike parking in all commercial areas
Bike Share: a city-wide bike share program

The goal of this initiative was to develop positive relationships with City Council candidates by talking to the them about the benefits of and barriers to cycling, in a practical way. We wanted them to be familiar with local cycling needs around infrastructure, budget and policy decisions, that could inform them once they were on Council.

In the end, 25 volunteers participated in 34 rides/meetings with candidates. These included rides with 60% of the candidates elected to council. Video reels of most rides were created; they can be viewed here.

2020 Budget Campaign

During the 2020-2023 budget process, we asked City Council for two things:

1) to hire an active transportation manager

2) to expand the safe cycling network by 40km by 2023

Status: Mixed Results

1) An Active Transportation Manager was hired in the spring of 2021

2) A reallocation of resources from the road budget to the cycling network was not approved. However, the City has received additional funding from the provincial and federal governments that have accelerated the implementation of the safe cycling network. See the city staff plan before council for 39km of safe cycling.

Another place of hope: all infrastructure projects will be subject to a climate impact analysis, and this could restrict road widenings, allowing more money for cycling in the future.

Bikes on Dundas

We prioritized Dundas Street as the main connecting east-west bike route between Downtown and Old East Village.

Status: APPROVED & COMPLETED

The city completed construction on Dundas Street in 2021. Protected bike lanes (cycle tracks) now run from the Forks of the Thames to the Western Fair—apart from Dundas Place, which is a 30km/hr. shared street.