Events

Upcoming Events:

March 25 2025: Bike Lane Removals: Tips for Staying Safe

RSVP: https://thegreenline.to/issue/toronto-bike-lane-removals-road-safety/#part_three_event

The Green Line is partnering with St. Stephen-In-The-Fields church to host a Story Circle and community dinner in the Kensington-Chinatown neighbourhood. We’ll explore how, with major bike lanes gone, drivers, cyclists and pedestrians can stay safe. We’ll also brainstorm solutions to commuting challenges.

#TheGreenLineTO’s March Action Journey Event, “Toronto’s bike lane removals: tips for staying safe,” will take place on Tuesday, March 25 from 6 to 9 p.m. at St. Stephen-In-The-Fields church (103 Bellevue Ave.) Dinner and refreshments will be provided.

Walk Toronto, Friends and Families for Safe Streets, Curbside Cycle Toronto, The Biking Lawyer David Shellnutt and other groups will provide concrete tips for staying safe while commuting, and will also host resource tables with information you can take home.

This event is Pay What You Can, as we want to include as many Torontonians as possible in this conversation.

For transparency, here's a breakdown of costs:

Venue cost: $50
Food and Drinks: $300
Labour: $1,200

If you'd like to support our team in continuing to host community-focused events like this, we'd appreciate a contribution of $31 to help us fully cover operational costs. If this is above your budget, we'd appreciate a payment of $10. If that's still a barrier to you joining us, you can contribute as much as you're able.

April 12 2025: Taking Action for Safe Streets: Join Cycling and Street Safety Advocates for a Panel About their Experiences Advocating for Safer Streets in Toronto

RSVP: eventbrite.ca/e/taking-action-for-safe-streets-tickets-1275438834889

Panel speakers include:

Albert Koehl

An environmental lawyer, coordinator of Community Bikeways, and author of Wheeling Through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and its Riders.

Michael Longfield

The executive director of Cycle Toronto, a member-supported charity dedicated to making Toronto a healthier, safer, and more vibrant cycling city for all. He is a passionate advocate for building inclusive cycling communities and making riding a bike a convenient transportation option.

Jess Spieker

A volunteer with Friends and Families for Safe Streets (FFSS) advocating to prevent death and injury on Toronto’s streets. After being struck and nearly killed by a reckless driver in 2015, Jess now works to see a Toronto where that never happens to anyone else.

Alison Stewart

The Bicycle Mayor of Toronto and the founding member of Femmes & Friends, a collective of women who seek to spread the joy of biking by creating inclusive and supportive spaces for women without the fear of judgment or competition. Alison began her journey as a cycling advocate in 2013 out of frustration with dangerous cycling conditions and the desire to be a positive agent of change.

The panel will take place in the North York Central Library Concourse Event Space below the library.

For more questions, please call 416-395-5672 or visit the first floor reference desk at North York Central Library.

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January 25, 2025: Brampton Bill 212 Protest!

Our friends from Brampton have showed up for us, and now it's our turn to show up for them. Join us Saturday January 25 to directly target the Minister of Transportation Prabmeet Sarkaria, who is responsible for this lethal nonsense of ripping out lifesaving Complete Streets and prohibiting them from being built. Meet at the Brampton Innovation GO station at 1:00pm, and ride to Sarkaria's constituency office. After a rally, a ghost bike will be installed in honour of all the future victims of the deadly Bill 212. More info on Bike Brampton's website: https://bikebrampton.ca/2025/01/11/bill-212-ride-and-rally/

COMMUTE OPTIONS:

GO Train, Kitchener Line Departures:
- Union GO: 11:51am
- Bloor GO: 12:01pm
- Arrive at Brampton Innovation District GO at 12:32pm for the 1:00pm event start time.
With another mode of transportation, bring your bike and meet at the Brampton Innovation District GO Station (27 Church St W, Brampton) by 1:00pm.
With another mode of transportation, and meet around 1:45pm to rally at Sarkaria's office at 7700 Hurontario St #402, Brampton.

The event will conclude with the installation of a Ghost Bike in honour of all future victims of the deadly Bill 212.

Return GO trains from Brampton to Toronto depart at 2:55pm, 3:55pm or 4:55pm.

November 17 2024: World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

Join us at Queen's Park at 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start time. This event features speakers personally devastated by road violence, a memorial name-reading ceremony, and a candle-lit march around Queen's Park. Join us in demanding that the provincial government not pass Bill 212 and not rip out our safest and most-used complete streets, along with preventing safe streets from being built anywhere else in the province. If our safe streets are ripped out and other municipalities are not allowed to build them, more people will be killed in crashes that would otherwise have been prevented. It is horribly callous for our elected leaders to actively try to get more road users killed instead of building safe streets. FFSS members understand all too well the toll of inaction and regression on road safety. No amount of driving convenience is worth the anguish, grief and pain that has been unleashed on us in crashes caused by reckless motorists on dangerously designed streets.

We will provide memorial posters and road safety signs to hold, and battery-powered candles. If you have a battery-powered candle of your own, please bring it. Make sure to dress for the weather. Warm gloves/mittens make it more comfortable to hold signs.

If you have lost a loved one to road violence, they are not forgotten. If you have been devastated by road violence, you are not alone.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/525216210281801

Upcoming Peer Support Meetings:

Meetings are held from 1:00-3:00pm in Room 375 of the 401 Richmond St building. Meetings are held in a hybrid format - you are welcome to attend in person, or over Zoom or Google Meet. To join online, please email [email protected] or DM us on any social media platform in advance for the link to the virtual meeting.

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