
'Clunky and chaotic' campaign to stop Toronto bus lane relies on fake AI people
Phoebe Knight
created: May 22, 2025, 2:33 p.m. | updated: May 23, 2025, 3:17 p.m.
A slew of local businesses and concerned residents in one Toronto neighbourhood are working together to fight a proposed bus lane... only, the residents you'll see featured on their community Instagram account aren't actually real.
To Protect Bathurst, the group of local business owners and residents behind the aforementioned posters, though, the proposal poses a serious threat to the community.
Perhaps the greatest charge that Protect Bathurst is raising against the City of Toronto is the perceived "lack of meaningful engagement" they feel their concerns have been met with.
"We are all [in favour of] a faster, more reliable TTC," Protect Bathurst tells blogTO.
"Civil engagement can be clunky and chaotic, especially for the inexperienced, and we’re doing our best," they tell blogTO.
2 weeks, 2 days ago: blogTO