Hmm, didn't realise there was a meeting last night for the Bike Union, do-oh. I'm kinda flaking out on it a bit, but have been involved with their management team stuff - my time and personal life have been all over the radar these past few weeks, heh.

I hate the way the press writes sometimes, we need to have less bias in the media even just to try and even the perception of cyclists - this kind of thing, especially when the poor guy was killed from nothing more than a 2 second lapse of attention - implied manslaughter through the door opening is more appropriate IMO (I hope to hell that person gets the $110+2 pt. fine at the very LEAST).

edit: Nice TJ - thanks for trying.

I was following a couple of people this morning on College, and they pulled up ahead of me at a light, then blew through College/Augusta (Eastbound, crossing the intersecting road) - granted I blow this light sometimes too, but when there are peds/cars-a-plenty it's a bit more of a push - I definitely saw this from a "stupid cyclists!" perspective though, which makes me a massive hypocrit as I frequently roll stops/reds especially in low traffic situations - aieeee the conflict!

Pedestrians have to be my worst foe still, one of my recent pet peeves is them crowding the road before the streetcar even arrives at the stop. I had a yelling match with a driver over this one day, as I went through and he figured I'd ran the door/stops. I told him "that streetcar was still moving when I passed it, those doors aren't a stop sign until they open up, dude". Bah. TGIF.

Also, bit of fun for the weekend: http://www.bellsonbloor.ca (Sunday) - Saturday is 1000 bells at Yonge/Dundas for the Green festival or something (12 noon). Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington too, IIRC.