The ride this morning was not as fun a usual, although the weather was quite nice.

At the beginning of my commute: from my house ~15 m to stop sign, left onto four lane road, ~50 m to lights to cross 6 lane road, ~100 m in left turn lane to lights to turn left onto two lane parkway. So I took the left turn lane and a jerk in a Jetta honked and buzzed me, passing on the right, to get around me so he/she could wait to turn left in front of me (behind two other cars) at the red light instead of behind me. Nice. I wanted to yell at them, but instead I waived to thank them for the morning wake-up-honk. Only the second time, since I started bike commuting in June, that I've been honked at while riding in Ottawa... so I'm not really used to it.

About 15 minutes later I stopped and waited behind a school bus loading up a bunch of kids by some big apartment buildings. Once the lights on the bus turned off I realized that all the traffic was still backed up and stopped on the street. I slowly passed the bus and a few cars and realized it was because there was a bike down, rider in the middle of the road surrounded by a bunch of people, bike off to the side on the sidewalk. I passed it all cautiously because there was nothing I could do to help and I didn't want to be in the way. After I got past I could hear sirens and see lights way behind me trying to get passed the backed up cars, and there was an ambulance coming in the other direction that I saw just before I turned off that road. It's a two lane road, designated as a "recommended bike route" although there are no bike lanes. I ride on it every day. I hope the rider is ok.