smallclb May 22, 20081

This is a great article, but you somehow missed the simple point that the guy was being disrespectful of the environment and others living in it by throwing his garbage out the window. That was his first mistake and the girl simply put it right back where it belonged! He didn't appreciate it, but why should he. Respect is the furthest thing from his mind in the first place! Note to self: What you dish out eventually comes back to you!

P88 May 27, 20082

Why did you include those photos of the Kensington incident? It wasn't a cyclist vs driver situation at all - it was a lazy ass litterbug vs a person who was simply tired of lazy ass litterbugs.

Perhaps you should have tracked down actual cyclists who have been injured by actual drivers. Photos of those people and their scars and injuries and short accounts of what happened would have been great. But hey - I guess that would have taken time and effort.

izetlu June 2, 20083

I too was driving home during the black out and witnessed a cyclist get hit by a car. Fortunately, traffic was so slow the cyclist was not hurt. On a daily basis I see both cyclists and car drivers behave in ways that are incompatible with each other. The only way to make cycling safe in the GTA is to make bike lanes that are inaccessible to cars. Many times I have been using bike lanes only to have to swerve into traffic to avoid a car parked in a bike lane.

We are not bringing enough imagination to this debate. We have park systems that run both east and west and north and south through the city. Is it really such a stretch to imagine bike lanes created to connect these parks that already have multi-use trails travelling through them?