Lobbying by cyclists may yet have an impact on the HTA

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:01:34 -0700 (PDT), Doug Landau
wrote:

On Monday, September 25, 2017 at 6:51:50 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:07:50 -0700 (PDT), Doug Landau

On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7:41:10 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 06:56:21 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 6:31:35 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 06:47:20 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Legislation to beef up penalties under the Highway Traffic
Act is to be proposed in Ontario: http://cyclingmagazine.ca/advocacy/o...bodily-injury/.

We'll see if it has any effect other than to produce tombstone reactions.

Given that a number of studies have shown that bicycles are at fault
in a substantial percentage of bicycle-auto collisions, more than half
in one study, and in at least two reports autopsies showed that as
many as 25% of cyclist deaths had excessive BAC, will these new
aggressive penalties apply to cyclists? Or solely to autos?

In San Francisco I would guess that bicycles are at fault in bike/car collisions more than half the time. And the other half are car drivers with road rage from the acts of bicyclists.

When you are polite with drivers they are generally polite back unless they are young punks trying to show off their machismo via automobile or Asian women who simply cannot drive.

Hey! My wife is an Asian woman and hasn't hit a bicycle in her 25 year
career as an auto pilot :-)

... as far as you know

Nope. She does tell me. She sort of drop kicked a motorcycle through a
stop light once and she told me about that... how else would she
explain that dent in the front bumper?

... okay, as far as -SHE- knows.

You are saying that my wife wouldn't know if she hit a motorcycle?

Given that you certainly have never met my wife and know nothing about
here I find your remark to be insulting, so I'll just say that "you
don't know what you are talking about" and consign you to the list of
the other fools that jabber away about things of which they know
nothing.
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Cheers,

John B.