“Putting in bike lanes is exactly what the Other Urban Repair Squad does.” Last summer the, the Toronto based group of vigilante cyclists hit a stretch of Bloor between Ossington Ave. and Dufferin St.”

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WOBO naturally does not condone breaking local laws in the name of activism, but this is how to get noticed by the city if you want bike lanes.  The message is clean, concise, and powerful. We want bike lanes, they are easy to build, and people will use them. An alternate approach would be the guerrilla application of sharrows, iconic indicators that bicycles are entitled to take the lane as needed.  These are more powerful and effective than bike lanes, as they indicate that bicycles are traffic, not merely an annoyance cordoned off to limited thoroughfares.