I think what's darkly funny from a public health perspective is that on a per capita basis, motorcycle riders are the people most likely to die on Toronto's roads. But nobody cares about them lol. You're never going to see an article about that.
Gatekeeping Toronto is oxymoronic because the key piece of being a real Torontonian is that you hate yourself.
Seriously
Toronto needs to stop waiting for the “perfect conditions” before building anything. The Yonge Street makeovers (both of them) are delayed waiting for a perfect fantastical future where their construction won't bother anyone. That's not how Montreal got its pedestrian streets.
And while we wait longer the costs escalate further. The John Street corridor was $40 million back in 2017, which is already an insane amount of money, and now it's at $93 million because we're duplicating costs.
Why? Because this kind of enforcement just doesn't make any sense from first principles. Even cops eventually realize that forcing hundreds of cyclists to make a complete stop on a busy trail does not make any sense from am efficiency or safety standpoint. But they gotta give a show of force.
Also any traffic engineers nodding along should also know that they're directly responsible for this kind of police harassment every time they install a stop sign where a yield sign would work just fine.
sf.streetsblog.org/2015/07/30/f...
I'm going to email my councillor about this as well, but, if you're a Toronto councillor and you field complaints about cyclists and then ask the police to do enforcement: you're inviting this kind of thuggery. I really hope that's not what happened here.
Electric bicycles have become a danger on the streets, putting pedestrians, traditional cyclists and e-bike riders themselves at risk. Better regulation is needed. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com
Draft regulations in Ontario are a step in the right direction
