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Colby Cosh: The Globe in shambles over losing right to bike lanes

It's hard for some to contend with the fact that two Liberal-appointed judges agreed that bike lanes aren't protected by the Charter

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. Ontario. Most of you probably don’t need a recap of the litigation, but we’ll zip through one: in November 2024 the Ontario government decided to rip some bike lanes out of congested roads in Toronto, and passed a law allowing it to do so. Cycling advocates sued on Charter of Rights grounds, claiming that the removal of the lanes would expose them arbitrarily to “grossly disproportionate” risk of injury and death.

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