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By lakeside (registered) | Posted December 06, 2014 at 00:50:01 in reply to Comment 106627
The Stinson Street bike lanes were a welcome and needed addition to the street, giving us a stretch of safer passage when traveling from east to west.
But when they were installed it was done without re-painting any of the missing pavement markings at the minor intersections between Wentworth and Wellington.
The result is that cyclists are frequently, literally, knocked off their bikes by cars rolling through stop signs on the north/south streets. This has occurred within metres of me on three occasions in the last two years.
Just how many cyclists have had this happen to them while using the Stinson bike lanes, or others? Steve, you're another and I wonder how many others there are.
Cyclists here are rather stoic so most victims just pick themselves up off the pavement, the driver asks if they're okay, the dazed cyclist mumbles 'yes' and the driver hops back in their car and speeds off. I doubt that many (any?) of these collisions are reported so nobody really knows how often it's happening but it is happening regularly.
These events could be at least reduced if crosswalk lines were reintroduced at all intersections.
People know they are supposed to stop at the stop sign but when there are no lines it blurs that responsibility. They way overshoot the stop sign then go 'oh, what the hell' and roll right through the turn.
The problem is that this doesn't give them enough time to see anything smaller than a bus, and they end up hitting people.
Are there not requirements for intersections to have crosswalk lines or at least the wide white strip at the stop sign. Doesn't the Highway Traffic Act mandate lines?
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