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| Star: Driver charged after cyclist's death Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:56 AM CDT A 43-year-old woman who allegedly opened her car door into the path of a cyclist, triggering a fatal accident, was charged last week under the Highway Traffic Act. |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:56 AM CDT A motorist who killed a cyclist with her car door as he rode along a Toronto street is facing a charge that carries the same $110 fine riders face for not having a bell on their bike. |
| Post: Woman charged in Toronto cyclist's death Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:29 AM CDT Toronto police have charged the 43-year-old woman who opened the door of her car without looking and sent a cyclist tumbling to his death last month. |
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| CBC: Child in serious condition after being hit while riding bike Posted: 26 Jun 2008 12:21 PM CDT The boy was struck while riding near Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue on Wednesday night at around 8:30 p.m. |
| TownCrier: New bike route pedalled for Marlee Ave. Posted: 26 Jun 2008 08:10 AM CDT Navigating local roads should be easier for cyclists when new bike routes are installed this summer and fall. Marlee Ave., Vaughan Rd., Shaw and Dupont Sts. are part of an overall plan to add 50 kilometres to Toronto's cycling network this year. |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2008 08:08 AM CDT No gas. No noise. No plates. No licence. No emissions. No insurance. No test. No registration |
| 7-Yr-Old Badly Hurt After Being Struck By Vehicle While Riding Bike Posted: 26 Jun 2008 08:07 AM CDT It happened at about 8:30pm on Neames Cres., near Jane and Sheppard. According to Toronto Police Traffic Services officers the youngster was riding on the wrong side of the road when he was struck by the Jeep. |
| Take the Lane: Baby steps for bicycle lanes Posted: 26 Jun 2008 08:04 AM CDT The Ontario government has taken another baby step toward improved bicycle infrastructure, as a part of an accelerated approval process for transit improvements. |
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| Star: Police ticket thousands in bike blitz Toronto police handed out nearly 7,000 tickets during a Safe Cycling campaign that wrapped up on Sunday. The program ran for a week and was intended to educate motorists and cyclists about bike safety and rules of the road. |
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| The Postal worker came out and looked at his truck surrounded by safety cones. "Where the hell do you want me to park!" |
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| Post: Q & A with Celeste Koon: Cycling and the Cinema The film student and avid cyclist spent the last months of 2007 making Pedal Power: Critical Mass Toronto, a short documentary on the city's once-monthly, two-wheeled takeover of major routes in the downtown area, which will play tonight as part of Toro |
| Sun: She's the queen of Kensington "The idea was to take our bicycles and tricycles and park in the metered car spaces in Kensington," says Carriere. "We would pay the meter and use the time to have lunch and listen to music. |
| Niagara Falls Review: Cyclists raise $14 million for cancer research Johnston was one of 2,850 cyclists who entered the Ride to Conquer Cancer, a fundraising event for Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital, one of the leading cancer research centres in the world. |
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| Posted: 19 Jun 2008 09:27 AM CDT It suggests a Toronto that's comfortable in its skin, implying that your city is what you make of it. In this there is elegance, and the old hope that this town's predictable love of efficiency would one day grow up into poetry. |
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| Star: Cycling rules to live by Ride with the flow of traffic, but within your limits. Experienced cyclists can manage busy streets, but recreational riders should walk their bike on the sidewalk when they feel unsafe on a road. |
| Star: Cult bikes from Duke's fire About 20 blackened survivors of Queen St. inferno are now coolest ride in town |
| Star: Dangers of cycling Toronto streets reduced by training, bike officer says The blitz is focusing on drivers who make unsafe turns, open car doors without looking or steer into bike lanes. Unruly cyclists are also being held to account. |
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| Global: Police Kick-off Safe Cycling Campaign Police are fed up with cyclists who flout - or worse, completely disobey - the law, the same rules those in cars are expected to follow. Among the worst sins: riding on the sidewalk, not signaling a turn, failing to ride in single file, having two on a si |
| CityNews: Cops Cracking Down On Cyclists Who Don't Obey The Law Police are fed up with cyclists who flout - or worse, completely disobey - the law, the same rules those in cars are expected to follow. Among the worst sins: riding on the sidewalk, not signaling a turn, failing to ride in single file, having two on a si |
| Post: Cyclists will commute if dedicated paths are there If more people used their bikes to get to work year-round, that would greatly reduce traffic congestion at the times it really matters: the two daily rush hours. |
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| The Canadian Press: Hundreds of bike messengers converge in Toronto for world championships Low pay, no benefits, stiff competition and constant threats posed by aggressive traffic and car doors - being a bike courier is a tough job, and they've got the battle scars to prove it. |
| Globe: This bike race delivers The unique and complex nature of the event reflects the character of the profession. "You get people who can't work in Tim Hortons for 10 minutes who do this job for 50 hours a week, and they risk their lives, and they thrive. |
| Globe: Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya People often blame cyclists for hogging the sidewalks and inconveniencing pedestrians. That was certainly the case on a recent warm spring night at the Bloor Cinema, but it wasn't because they were on their bikes. |
| You might've seen Cheryl Douglas, 57, weaving in and out of the city's busy intersections before, but she's doing it with health benefits and better wages now that she's a part of Courier Co-op Toronto. |
| Sun: Riders celebrate bicycle bonus What used to be 30-minute walk to work is now a breezy 10. My commute is a pleasant one, with the exception of road hogging drivers who disregard the sanctity of bike lanes and try to run me over. |
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| InsideToronto: Bloor transformation assailed by cycling advocates There are other opportunities for cyclists. And I might add that eliminating curbside parking will go a long way to mitigating the problems of cyclists in this section of Bloor Street." |
| InsideToronto: Is there life after traffic? ayor David Miller articulated a hierarchy in the transportation world: Pedestrians before cyclists; cyclists before public transit; and public transit before the dinosaur-fuelled automobile. |
| Torontoist: Bike-Off This Weekend Check out BikingToronto and Abdominal's interactive bike lane and bike shop maps. The Cycle Messenger World Championships run from June 13 to 16 on Toronto Island, and admission is free ($6 for ferry). |
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| The elliptical horse and other catchy new adornments outside Royal Ontario Museum serve a valuable purpose - as hitching posts for cyclists. |
| InsideToronto: Rapper cycles to success Abdominal, whose given name is Andy Bernstein, recently partnered with Biking Toronto to help celebrate Bike Month, with his track, 'Pedal Pusher', selected as the Bike Month theme. |
| Spacing: A look at Toronto's new street furniture models The bike racks are just a sleeker version of our current ring-and-post locks. |
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| Star: Hypermiling squeeze every drop from the tank Anybody can do it. It's huge right now because of gas prices. But the best hypermilers are those who don't turn the key at all. They walk, bike, or take public transit. My son and I ride our bikes to church because it's the right thing to do. |
| Post: ROM reveals city's coolest bike racks A bronze zebra head, the face of Queen Nefertiti, a German coconut cup and a Grecian urn were among 11 bike rack sculptures that caught the attention of pedestrians and cyclists along Queens Park Crescent today. |
| Dufflet Rosenberg is inviting locals with a sweet tooth and a bicycle to celebrate Bike Month by cycling to all three Dufflet retail cafe locations in one day to complete the Tour de Dufflet. |
| Globe: Bloor Street shopping strip loses its parking Mr. Egan said traffic volumes - 30,000 cars a day - meant that the new narrower Bloor still needed four lanes and could not accommodate full-size bike lanes. However, he said the street could be retrofitted with bike lanes later. |
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| Biking means more time spent outdoors in our short summer months, and can wake you up better than a cup of coffee in the morning. It's better for the environment, a great source of exercise, it can be faster than taking public transit or driving and saves... |
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| Christian Science Monitor: In Toronto, cyclists form a first-of-its-kind union "I've been riding my bike for nearly 40 years in the city, and it's high time we have something like a union," Ms. Marks explained last weekend. "I don't fly around like the youngsters. But if we were able to have better bike lanes and benefit | |||||||||||||
| Bike shops in Toronto are cycling through their inventory at record speeds, too, with Urbane Cyclist clocking-in their biggest year of sales in a decade last year, according to worker Chris Williams, adding "this year is even bigger."
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Now: How did it advance the cause? It didn't."Reckless" will be the insult, but the designation "protest'' will be the real injury forcing ethereal longings to have to negotiate the rigged traffic signals of political argument. Other cyclists will join in over beers, brunches and bulletin... Now: Paradise ridersLane by lane, the Gardiner was closed. Well, okay, maybe I'm a little bombastic here. Rogue Cyclists Block Gardiner, the Sun headline the next day read. Eye: Critical messThere are a myriad of ways in which motorists make cyclists' lives miserable in this city, but if the situation is ever going to change for the better, we cyclists need to take the high road. Star: Annette bike lanes spark bickeringProposal to add dedicated route for cyclists on Annette St. meets with merchants' resistance...Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers. Labels: news
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