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Toronto police stuck cyclists and drivers with 5,907 tickets during its latest one-week campaign to get the two groups to share Toronto's streets.
Cyclists were ticketed 1,373 times for disobeying traffic signals and failing to yield to pedestrians. Equipment — or the lack thereof — got bike riders in trouble, too, as 747 tickets were issued to those who rode without the mandatory bell, light and reflectors.
Eighty-four tickets were handed out to people not wearing helmets.
Drivers were ticketed 3,502 times for opening car doors without looking for cyclists and for not yielding to cyclists. Police also left 198 tickets on cars parked in bike lanes.
A further 852 drivers and cyclists were handed warnings about a variety of offences such as cyclists dangerously passing cars on the right next to driveways and drivers failing to check over their shoulders for cyclists.
"This campaign wasn't meant to target bicycles, or bicycle-related offences ... we're targetting road offences," said Sgt. Tim Burrows. "We're trying to make it safer out there."
The "Safe Cycling - Share the Responsibility" campaign ran from June 22-28. During the same campaign last year Toronto police issued 6,671 tickets.
I have to say that if the police found only 198 cars parked in bike lanes over a week period they were not looking that hard. Not as hard as they were looking for cyclists not putting their foot down at stop signs, without lights, bells and any other crackpot excuse they could come up with. It seems the Cycle Right program should be called Cycle Crackdown. Sorry its the best I can do so early in the morning.
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July 29th, 2009 - 01:06
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August 5th, 2009 - 15:41
I don’t get it, what do you mean by the 3rd paragraph?