Bicycles on Yonge Street. Contrary to what I was told, bicycles are very popular in Toronto. In fact, many if not most people who live downtown Toronto do not have a car because it is not needed. Brussels is a relatively small city with a population of just under one million. The GTA, depending on how one counts, has somewhere between 4 and 6 million people. And yet, there are far more cyclists here than in Brussels. Courtesy is doubtless one of the reasons. Toronto traffic, while slowly becoming less friendly, is far far less agressive than Brussels traffic.