Prepared for the weather today. Froze my behind off yesterday as I was sorely unprepared.

Morning was the usual, a couple of idiot delivery vans, specifically a Cintas (uniform people), and a UPS truck. Really need a front mounted camera and start sending them in to the police ... either that or big stickers with a "I PARK ON BIKE LANES - aka idiot" on it, in like florescent green so they stand out, so I can plaster on the rear of them.

But the commute back home strengthened my resolve to find a way to ban every single Smart Car on the road. And ban taxi cabs, racism be damned, especially ones driven by very specific groups of people who seem to come here and think cause they are in a car they own the road.

Damn idiot, probably a nurse or doctor (was in a area of TO with a ton of hospitals, and they turned into one of the hospital's parking spaces just down from the corner for staff), decided to use the bike lane to make a right turn, because there was just enough room between the curb and the taxi in the car lane. Slammed my breaks just quickly enough to avoid being side swiped by them.

Then, a not too far away, while I was on the same street, a moron taxi cab driver decides to slam his breaks the moment 2 women get onto the road between 2 parked cars, I guess hoping for a fare, turns out they only wanted to J-walk. In the mean time, moron taxi cab driver, decides that slamming his breaks and stopping nearly on a dime with another taxi behind him (aka motivation to stop quicker as the other guy would have gotten the fair) and I was behind the 2nd taxi. Missed getting hit simply by swarving into the left lane (was going nearly 40Km/h would not have been able to stop on time) and ended up getting into the street car tracks.

Fun commute.

Jim