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Old 10-14-08 | 09:27 AM
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elTwitcho
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From: Toronto
Originally Posted by LordFoo
Was it a bus knuckle? I'm not sure why, but Don Mills seems to have more of em than anywhere else I've noticed.
Nah it was one of those sections where it looks like they cut up the pavement to do some work on the metal car sensing thing underneath, then refilled it with asphalt but didn't make it even with the road surface. So there was a strip that went across all the lanes, about 2 feet across and about 3-4 inches deeper than the rest of the road surface with squared edges. I just about ate it when I hit it unexpectedly in the dark at the base of a big decline.

Kind of sucks that they'd not even consider how dangerous that could be for a cyclist to put essentially a 3 lane wide pothole at the base of a huge descent. I mean the city spends a **** ton of money putting up ads in bus shelters encouraging you to ride your bike but they don't even make an effort to make the city more rideable
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