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.
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.