Right... upholding the principles of a lawful society now apparently involves willingly being the scapegoat for the thousand-odd other guys who ran the red that day in vehicles weighing tons more, and much greater speeds, and somehow didn't get ticketed. But make sure you forfeit your hearing and plead guilty because otherwise, your children will someday find out you exercised your right to fight a traffic ticket you got on a bicycle.

I just love being taught ethics over the internet.

In response to the earlier posts, if my questioning the constancy of the traffic act enforcement and criticizing the behavior of drivers in Toronto makes me a moron according to some random guy on the internet, so be it. I have lot nastier things yelled at me out the windows of cars when I am not "on the sidewalk where I should be".

But I also take responsibility for my own safety, and laws that were designed to keep people in motor vehicles moving steadily around the city have little to do with keeping cyclists from getting hit by motor vehicles. If you think the following the law will protect you from motorists who totally disregard it, then I admire your conviction.

My view is bit more pragmatic. When I say that word many will quickly accuse me of making my own rules, I suppose, but my only real rule is “don’t get hit by a car”. Yes, I place that rule above the numbered sections of the highway traffic act..

Just like people in cars place “getting home five minutes faster” above the aforementioned. Nothing can convince me that ANYWHERE in Toronto, when you stop for a yellow light, a bunch of cars wouldn’t go ripping by and blow through it.

And what happened to sticking out your left arm and pointing it down to signal a stop? That’s what I meant about getting it taken off.

900,000 cyclists, and I haven’t seen one out so far this week. Just cars. Running red lights.

Maybe there are two cities called Toronto and I’m in the wrong one.