Bike corrals are seasonal on-street bicycle parking installations that repurpose on-street car parking spaces to provide convenient, secure bicycle parking without congesting the sidewalk. By moving bicycle parking from sidewalks to the curb lane, bike corrals help reduce sidewalk congestion while supporting local businesses and making it easier for people to bike to their destinations.

Bike corrals are installed where demand for bicycle parking exceeds the limited space on the sidewalk or the boulevard behind it.  Usually corrals are installed near the intersection to be relevant to as many destinations as possible for the user. A further advantage of using the roadway is its high-profile location, where bicycles are in full public view and near busy retail and employment destinations.

People park their bikes at a bike corral located on a street.Corrals are typically removed before plowing season (starting December 1), and re-installed in the springtime. Currently there are two designs: vertically staggered bike racks (that prevent pedal and handlebar tangles when full) with flex-posts on the road-side, and a newer ‘parking stall’ design that is enclosed on three sides. Bolting racks to the street allows more flexibility in size. The self-contained parking stall is 5.5 metres long, the space of a single car parking stall.

 

 

 

The list below shows the locations of seasonal bike corrals across the city.

Address Location Description Capacity
Marine Parade Drive Opposite 58 Marine Parade Drive, east of the crossover 14
3 Westmoreland Avenue Located 50 m north of Bloor Street 14
12 Emerson Avenue Located outside of the Lansdowne Avenue subway station on the west side of Emerson Avenue 14
19 Dorval Road On Edna Avenue, west of Dundas West subway station 14
29 Duncan Street Located at Nelson Street and Duncan Street 14
56 Kensington Avenue West side of Kensington Avenue 14
61 Front Street West Beside the east entrance to the subway station on Front Street 28
145 Wellington Street West East of Simcoe Street 14
160 Geary Avenue South entrance to Geary Parkette, east of Bartlett Avenue 14
182 Augusta Avenue Located on the west side of Augusta Avenue, just north of Denison Square 14
205 Spadina Avenue Located north of Phoebe Street on the east side of Spadina Avenue 14
213 Delaware Avenue Located on the east side of Delaware Avenue north of Bloor Street West 8
509 Bloor Street West Angled racks in hashed out area adjacent to cycle track 5
702 Bathurst Street Located on Herrick Street 14
809 Dovercourt Road Located on the east side of the Dovercourt Road north of Northumberland Street 14
861 Bloor Street West South side of Bloor Street, west of Roxton Road 4
1182 Bloor Street West Located on Pauline Avenue 14
1184 Bloor Street West Located on Pauline Avenue 14
1573 Bloor Street West Facing Bloor Street, on the west side of Alhambra Avenue 14
1914 Bloor Street West Across from High Park 14
1986 Bloor Street West Across from High Park 14
2190 Bloor Street West Facing Bloor Street 14
282 Albany Avenue Located on the southeast corner of Dupont Street and Albany Avenue 4
123 Essex Avenue Facing Shaw Street 8
11 Munition Street Facing Commissioners Street 28
983 Gerrard Street East Facing Pape Avenue 4
128 Sheridan Avenue Facing Atkins Avenue 4
250 The Esplanade Corner of Berkeley Street 8

 

Date modified: July 9, 2026