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By moylek (registered) - website | Posted June 25, 2015 at 12:17:37 in reply to Comment 112461
It's a crappy intersection which I know well: it's on my route home from the LCBO and Beer Store. I more often pass through it on my bike, but sometimes in the truck. Quite honestly, I've never found it all that bad. What I most worry about - on my bike, certainly, but even in my truck sometimes - in that area are ....
the 403 access ramps on King, with drivers veering across multiple lanes at high speed
turning left from Dundurn onto King on my bike from the middle Dundurn lane
riding North on Dundurn near theLCBO, with drivers trying to park on the road, parked cars jockeying to leave, me getting ready to turn left to the Beer Store, and cars rushing up Charlton (out of nowhere, from my perspective) and turning right on Dundurn
One of the differences between the above areas and the (ugly; law bending) intersection at Main and Dundurn is that the last is at least predictable: I know what to expect and plan accordingly.
Likewise, the cycling behaviours that rile me - and the "get off the road! you don't pay taxes!" crowd, I dare say - involve unpredictability. Though I don't think that the unpredictability is the main problem. I'm not sure what the "main problem" is: I don't completely understand the ire of the anti-cyclist irate, though I have felt it to some degree, and have pondered over it often. If I figure it out, I'll write a piece about it for RtH. :)
But I do know the best way to reduce the ire and the misdirected outbursts it generates: have more people going about their business on bikes. And that means improving our cycling infrastructure. Which means ... well, what does it mean, to those of us who want this to happen?
-- Kenneth Moyle Hamilton, Ontario
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