Collisions between cars and bicycles down, cops say

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Posted by joe 3 years ago. There are 2 posts. The latest reply is from toddtyrtle.

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joe
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Posted 3 years ago #
Even with all this hubbub, the roads are getting more civilized? Less collisions, but more media coverage?
- Collisions between cars and bicycles down, cops say
  
  Collisions between bikes and cars are down this year, but Toronto Police admit more could be done when it comes to enforcing the rules of the road on cyclists.
  
  According to numbers from traffic services, of the 417,879 traffic tickets issued this year, only 1,894 were issued to cyclists. That's less than the 2,718 issued to pedestrians.
  
  "Is there room for improvement on enforcement? Oh yeah," Burrows said. "Is that the route we want to take? I don't think so, I think we'd prefer to go after education and change the behaviour."
  
  The death of Darcy Allan Sheppard who was fatally injured in an incident involving the car driven by former attorney general Michael Bryant Monday is considered a pedestrian fatality even though he had earlier been riding a bike.
  
  Before Sheppard's death, 15 pedestrians, two drivers, four passengers and one motorcyclist had died on Toronto roadways this year.
toddtyrtle
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Posted 3 years ago #

Wow, 3 crashes a day? That's still *crazy*.

All in all it's kind of like the weather man saying proudly: "Temperatures have dropped! While it was 45°C last week, it'll be only 40 this week!"

Infrastructure will go a long way towards helping with this, I suspect. And enough with the justification that we shouldn't put in infrastructure for a bunch of scofflaws or I'll suggest that the airbags be removed from all cars because drivers speed and therefore don't deserve them.