Comment 5565

By highwater (registered) | Posted February 20, 2007 at 19:33:18

Maybe it's because I'm anal, or maybe it's because I'm a parent trying to set a good example for my kids, but when I'm on a bike, I stop at every stop sign even if there isn't a car to be seen. Yeah, it's a drag, but rules are rules, and as I said, there's often a police presence in my neck of the woods and they do ticket cyclists.

Back to the bikes on sidewalks issue, I wanted to add that seems to be a peculiarly Hamilton problem. I lived in Toronto for 10 years and 5 in St. Kitt's before moving to Hamilton 8 years ago. I had never seen cyclists on sidewalks before the way I did in Hamilton. At first I assumed it was because the roads must be particularly hazardous for cyclists, or the drivers particularly backwards (although having survived Spadina and Queen W on a Saturday, how bad could they be?), but there are bike lanes in our neighbourhood now and it's as bad as ever. Don't know what it is.

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