If you’re a fan of bike shares in Toronto, then good news.
The city is expanding its bike-share network in 2026. Toronto Bike Share will be also adding more electric bikes and docking infrastructure as demand for the system continues to climb.
According to a recent report, the city will introduce 200 additional e-bikes and 750 standard bikes to the Bike Share Toronto system this year.
The expansion will also include 350 new charging docks for e-bikes and around 1,200 solar-powered docking stations across the network.
The move comes after a massive surge in ridership last year. The system recorded about 7.8 million trips in 2025. That’s a 10 per cent increase compared with 2024. Additionally, the number of individual riders jumped 40 per cent, according to the operating plan. Roughly 231,000 of those users were first-time riders, which is also good news for cycling in the city.
Electric bikes have proven especially popular. They generate more than twice as many trips per day as traditional bikes, the report found.
Raktim Mitra, an urban planning professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, said ebikes are popular for a reason. They make cycling accessible to more people by reducing the physical effort needed for longer trips.
“Suddenly five to seven kilometres becomes a more reasonable distance to bike in a reasonable amount of time without exerting much physical effort,” he told CBC News.
Cycling advocates say the bike-share system is often a first step for people who are curious about cycling in the city.
Officials say growing the bike-share network could also help ease congestion. This is especially important as the city prepares for increased visitors during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Traffic is already pretty brutal in the city…so just imagine when there’s all kinds of soccer fans here?
The expansion is expected to cost just over $10 million. The bike-share program generated $17.1 million in revenue in 2025. That was $2.3 million more than projected, according to the report.
The positive news about Torontonians using bike share comes amid a long battle between the Ontario government and bike lanes in both the province, and city.
After a Charter challenge launched by cycling advocates resulted in a judge ruling that removing critical cycling infrastructure threatened cyclists’ rights to life, liberty, and security, the government appealed. The Court of Appeal will eventually give a decision in the coming months.
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