About

Why this exists

Google Maps' bike routing in Toronto is genuinely bad. It routes cyclists down arterial roads, ignores protected lanes, and pays no attention to streetcar tracks — which are involved in roughly a third of downtown bike injury crashes.

Other dedicated cycling apps exist, but most try to be a fitness tracker, a social network, and a route planner all at once. This one does one thing well: route Toronto cyclists along the safest, most efficient bike infrastructure available.

What it does

• Routes prioritize protected lanes → multi-use trails → sharrows → signed routes → quiet streets, in that order
• Avoids active road closures using the City's live work-permit feed
• Optionally avoids streetcar tracks (one click, persists across visits)
• Shows multiple route alternatives: Recommended, Fastest, Calmest, Flattest
• Overlays Toronto's full cycling network, BikeShare station availability, bike-theft heatmap, and topographic elevation
• Works on phones, with a mobile-first bottom sheet interface

Built with open data

Toronto is lucky to have great open data. Everything in this app comes from public sources:

• OpenStreetMap — the underlying street network, licensed under ODbL
• City of Toronto Cycling Network — official infrastructure classification (cycle tracks, bike lanes, multi-use trails, sharrows, signed routes)
• City of Toronto Road Restrictions — live road closures and construction
• Toronto Police Service — bike theft incident locations
• Bike Share Toronto GBFS feed — live station availability
• CARTO — base map tiles
• Photon by Komoot — address autocomplete
• Open-Elevation — elevation profiles

Found a bug? Have an idea?

Email [email protected]. This is a side project — please be patient with response times.