Toronto police issue over 300 tickets and warnings in 2-week crackdown on e

Toronto police issue over 300 tickets and warnings in 2-week crackdown on e-bikes and scooters

The enforcement blitz also led to over 1,200 parking tickets, police say

Toronto police have ticketed and warned 300+ e-bike, e-scooter riders

Toronto police issued hundreds of tickets and warnings relating to micromobility devices, like e-bikes and e-scooters, over a two-week campaign this month, according to early data.

Police handed out 324 tickets and warnings between Aug. 10 and Aug. 24, Toronto police said in a news release Monday morning. That preliminary total does not include some handwritten tickets as they’re still being transcribed, police said.

The enforcement blitz aimed to crack down on the misuse of micromobility devices, including e-bikes, e-scooters, bicycles, cargo bikes and mopeds, and aimed to encourage safe road use to reduce the number of collisions involving "vulnerable road users," police said when it was launched.

"While the two-week campaign placed a strong emphasis on education and awareness, officers will continue to enforce micromobility offences across the city," states the news release from Toronto police.

During the enforcement blitz, police also issued 1,277 parking tickets to vehicles parked in a bike lane, according to the release.

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When police began the initiative, they said officers would provide information to road users on things like illegal sidewalk riding, wrong-way riding in cycle tracks, illegal e-moped use in cycle tracks and illegal parking in bike lanes.

There have been 514 collisions involving micromobility devices in Toronto this year, as of Aug. 10. Two of the crashes involving e-scooters were fatal, police said.

Toronto police introduced similar campaigns last summer and in November 2024, and police said the efforts will continue.

"As awareness of the rules increases, enforcement will focus on riders who operate illegally or engage in behaviour that puts pedestrians, cyclists and other road users at risk," police said in Monday’s release.

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Michael Longfield with biking advocacy group Cycle Toronto said he appreciates the effort to keep vehicles from parking in bike lanes.

"It might seem like it’s just about someone’s convenience, but it really does pose a major safety risk," he told CBC Toronto.

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But Longfield said, in general, it is frustrating to see resources being put towards enforcement targeting micromobility vehicles when cars are a much bigger threat to road safety.

"More people are killed in Toronto as a result of motor vehicle collisions than by homicide," said Longfield. He said traffic accidents should be treated with more concern, rather than accepted as a reality of living in a big city.

But Longfield said he understands the city has limited tools to tackle road safety issues, mentioning the province’s removal of speed cameras and ability to remove bike lanes.

“From a political perspective, I understand why throwing police enforcement at the scooter and e-bike issue might be the only tool they have,” he said.