Biking in Downtown Toronto!!!
We live in a great City for biking….I really should do more but I love walking…you get to see so much more… and that is the problem.
As I walk through the City though, I find myself getting angrier and angrier at the Bikers. First of all, I am walking on a sidewalk…not a sidebike. What are bikes doing on a sidewalk especially when they are adjacent to bike lanes? I live next to a street that has bike lanes on it, so what are bicycles doing zooming past me up on the sidewalk, going both ways with little or no respect for the walkers and runners that occupy the “sidewalk”.
It is then that I notice that the rolling racers are not wearing helmuts and that the Government only mandates those under 18 to do so. Yet, in this Province everyone sitting in a car must wear a seatbelt or you get a tagged…does that make any sense? Yesterday, on a very busy thoroughfare I saw a helmut-less mother with a matching helmut-less child in a jump seat behind her. Is it less money for the tax payer to pay for surgery on bikers than it is for car riders?? (Read on …)
