Comment 101246

By mikeonthemountain (registered) | Posted May 11, 2014 at 00:33:27 in reply to Comment 101240

Again, it's not paying attention to the issue here. You're changing it from "safety only applies to cars, not to bikes" to "we'll start being safe when it's convenient to us".

Don't twist what I wrote. In my last couple of comments I've just said I'm a fan of PPE personally, and advocate for obedience to the rules on everyone's part.

The point is that a good cycle lane adds a degree of safety that is vastly far above the simple wearing of helmets. The people in the illustration are free to choose to wear one, just as you are in your vehicle, in case your head hits the window. But nobody is breaking the law in this illustration. So stop associating my viewpoint with lawlessness and anarchy.

Showing un-helmeted riders in an artists rendition of a safe cycle lane, invokes arguments that it somehow invalidates the advocacy for a safe cycle lane; these are a distraction meant to derail the conversation.

I'll give you another example. Some time ago in another MSM site was an article about planned streetscaping on Eglington Ave after the CrossTown is built. The first visible comment, because it was an "Editor's Pick" comment, was pointing out the one lady in the illustration that was not wearing a helmet. It's like some of you are so desperate to maintain a dangerous high stress ghetto street atmosphere, you'll grasp at any nit you can possibly pick to derail the topic of conversation into fruitless minutia.

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