Guerrilla bike lanes
Standing beside two parked cars, two men in dark baseball hats wait for the signal.
It’s broad daylight and nearly rush hour on Bloor. A woman in paint-stained jeans sprints ahead of the men, scanning the street. Another stations herself across the road, surveying the speeding cars for police. The thumbs-up sign is given.
The painting can begin.
Seconds later, a cardboard bike stencil is thrown on the road and the first of seven cans of hot pink paint is emptied on a stretch of Bloor St. W.
“Putting in a bike lane?” asks a teenage girl cycling by.
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