# Toronto cycling year in review

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2026-04-17

cycling, bike-share, toronto, year-in-review, 2025, urbanism, mobility, montreal

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The City of Toronto just released its 2025 Cycling Year in Review report. You can [download it here](https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/96e8-2025-Toronto-Cycling-Year-in-Review-FINAL.pdf). At the highest level, Toronto is now considered to be the 7th most bike-friendly city in North America, according to the [Copenhagenize Index](https://copenhagenizeindex.eu). Our snowier sibling, Montréal, is number one on the continent. And globally, we're ranked 55th.

Neither of these positions is particularly impressive given our scale and prominence as a global city, but progress is being made. In 2025, City Council approved 33 km of new bikeways, installed 14.11 km, and upgraded 9.02 km. Our infrastructure continues to get better.

What I find particularly noteworthy and telling, though, is the adoption of the city's bike share network. 2025 was another record year, with 7.8 million rides, representing a 13% increase from 2024. We're still not at the level of Montréal, which recorded [13 million rides in 2024](https://montrealgazette.com/news/bixi-reports-record-13-million-rides-in-2024/), but adoption is growing quickly.

We have gone from around 665,000 rides in 2015 to nearly 8 million in the span of a decade. That's a compounded annual growth rate of approximately 28%! Once again, we are reminded that if you build it, and make it easy and safe, more people will ride bicycles.

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_Cover photo by_ [_Jason Ng_](https://unsplash.com/@json_pix?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) _on_ [_Unsplash_](https://unsplash.com/photos/a-row-of-bikes-parked-on-the-side-of-a-street-7IYMxp3xP2U?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/toronto-cycling-year-in-review)*