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Old 05-08-11 | 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by PeddlePhile
Ok.

Thanks for your opinions.

I've been sidewalk riding here for 10 years. Often right past Police.
So they obviously don't enforce that law here. When I get a ticket I'll advise.
And I'll gladly take it and continue on the sidewalk as there is no way in a year of Sundays I'd ride on the street with today's drivers.
I think we also have a vastly different view of sidewalks. Usually there are very few pedestrians on the sidewalks.
Maybe the sidewalks where you commute have much heavier pedestrian traffic?

Hey, have a look at this.... it's about malicious things motorists do to bicyclists for fun...I take it you've heard of the "Door-Prize" move?

http://bikeunion.to/clipping/deadly-...-death-cyclist
Since that item is from Toronto (quite near my home, actually) here are a couple more from around the same time:

http://www.thestar.com/article/678257
Woman, 56, dies after sidewalk crash with cyclist

http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local.../?hub=CP24Home
Cyclist suffers life-threatening injuries after car collision
A 44-year-old cyclist is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car at the southern entrance of Yorkdale Mall on Friday evening.
The man was travelling southbound on a sidewalk of Dufferin Street
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