by XPolice | Sep 11, 2017 | News, Toronto & Area
Cyclists celebrated the new bike lanes, but some in the community fear they will make vehicle traffic more dangerous. “Bike at your leisure, pleasure, whatever — just congest the hell out of that bike lane,” Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon ordered a horde of helmeted...
by XPolice | Sep 6, 2017 | Driving Concerns, Provincial
Written by Gary Goodwin for Canadian Lawyer Mag Bikers flaunt laws with impunity and risk life and limb. I know . . . as I count myself among them. I am talking about bicycles of course. Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act defines a vehicle as including a bicycle and a...
by XPolice | Jul 14, 2017 | Hamilton, News
Elise Desjardins, Friendly Streets project manager, and member of Cycle Hamilton (left) leads a tour of Victoria Ave. North to explain the issues with the busy street (Scott Gardner, Hamilton Spectator) Friendly Streets is a year-long pilot project that aims to assess...
by XPolice | Mar 1, 2017 | News, Provincial, Toronto & Area
When Vicky Tsorlinis picked up the mail a few weeks ago, there was a letter from the Ontario government that she and her son didn’t expect to receive. Inside an envelope was a notice from Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation saying 18-year-old Isaac was being assessed...
by XPolice | Nov 17, 2016 | Driving Concerns, News, Toronto & Area
‘It bothers me that I have to go investigate fatal after fatal,’ Eugenia Ambrozaitis says With 1,083 pedestrians and cyclists struck by cars between June and September of 2016, Toronto police collision officer Eugenia Ambrozaitis has had no shortage of...