An Ontario court has dismissed the province’s challenge to a court order that temporarily halted its plans to remove bike lanes from three major Toronto roadways.
Cycling advocates are calling the court’s decision a victory, because it prevents the province from removing the bike lanes on Bloor Street, University Avenue, and Yonge Street until a judge has had the chance to rule on their Charter challenge of a bike lane removal law enacted by the government last fall.
Justices Faye McWatt, Nancy Backhouse, and Richard Lococo of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice dismissed the province’s appeal on July 8, upholding an injunction granted by another judge this spring….