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Policing the Annette Bike Lane (again)
Observed by vic on Fri, Nov 20 2009
Over the last few days, the media has been reporting that there is a push to increase fines for parking in the bike lanes, and to increase enforcement. Obviously hasn't started yet.
Toronto Police vehicle #11S1 (Supervisor), license plate BEYY 864.
The officer could clearly be seen inside a restaurant getting some takeout food.
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Posted on Fri, Nov 20 2009 at 10:50 AM
I am not trying to make any excuse for the cops parking in the bike lane, but police, ambulance and utility vehicles such as Rogers, Hydro, Bell are allowed, under the Toronto by-law that governs the bike lane to legally park in them. On the same note, I would just like to say that they should all be towed.
Posted on Fri, Nov 20 2009 at 02:01 PM
Does it matter under the by-law if they are on official business? I think running into a coffee shop is a bit different than ticketing someone or doing utility work, etc....
Posted on Mon, Nov 23 2009 at 10:20 PM
Probably not as the people enforcing the law are the people breaking the law. Like I said, I am not making excuses for them, I'm just saying.
Posted on Tue, Nov 24 2009 at 07:52 AM
I wonder if anything will change. This is from today's Toronto Sun:
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"On Sunday,the Sun witnessed a city cop sitting inside the Grillway Cafe, at Runnymede Rd. and Annette St., while his cruiser was blocking a bike lane on Annette.
The officer was parked there for at least 20 minutes before leaving the cafe with a can of pop and a paper lunch bag.
But instead of protecting their own, Toronto Police brass called the officer's parking actions "stupid" and "unacceptable." "
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More here:
<a href="http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/11/24/11900526-sun.html">http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/11/24/11900526-sun.html</a>
Posted on Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 02:22 PM
I was thinking about starting to taking pictures of people on Bikes running through red lights/stop signs/cross walks, not signalling, riding on the sidewalk, not yielding to the right, etc.
But yeah, then I got a life!
Posted on Thu, Nov 26 2009 at 05:49 PM
I tried taking pictures of offenders on bikes but "Wa wa! we don't like it when the tables are turned!" (followed by threats of physical violence). Cyclists seem to think that everything should revolve around them. That asshole biker who got killed by Bryant was such a "tragic" story, but when I mentioned the elderly pedestrian who was killed by a cyclist a month earlier, the people attending his memorial (also blocking the road) called me all sorts of names and (again) threatened violence. I would welcome the sight of seeing some of them being dragged under a semi.
Posted on Fri, Nov 27 2009 at 12:00 PM
I've been riding my bike in this city for 35 years ... I'm the guy on the magenta Boardwalk who will loudly denounce sidewalk riders as cowards, who will scream at people coming at me the wrong way in bike lanes, who will say to the kid on the back of the bike "Nice helmet. Where's Daddy's helmet?" And would gesture towards clotheslining a rider who tried to blow through a stop sign past me. Brainless riders tend not to like me very much. To heck with them. And to Hell on a slow-rotating spit with anybody who parks in a bike lane if there is not an emergency.