Ask Torontoist:
Off The Road, E-Bike,
or Whatever You Are!
In response to yet another provocative article
backed up by Toronto's cyclist Union
that is meant to bring nothing but a flame
to our ailing cycling eco-community.
Isn't keeping of our city's air clean and our planet green, the sky
blue, sunsets and sunrises beautiful, streets quiet, Torontonians
healthy and our future and future of our children bright - most
important and common goal for all the cyclist and e-bikers above
anything else in our huge TO, already overflown with so many smoldering
cars, stuck idling in heavy and chronic traffic during the rush hour, flooding and
congesting our streets almost 24/7 now, killing dozens of cyclist every
year and slowly poisoning the rest of us every single day, while there's already
more than enough asthmatic kids and lung cancer cases statistic around?
Is the danger really that terribly great when an e-biker responsibly
takes free bike lane solely for his or her own safety and our common
safety on the road, just like any cyclist does, yet moving at the same
as cyclist speed or often much slower, so that would justify any
cyclist to push e-biker much closer to whizling cars and then yet try
to pass e-biker on the right side being too busy with his own life?
After all, how many cyclist are killed by e-bikers and how many by
cars??
And finally, isn't this time to unite our efforts for our own
common good to push Ford for more bike lanes or push him out of the
office, instead of watching him bringing yet even more cars to TO DT
core and wowing to get rid of all lanes and put all cyclist even at
much greater danger of death???
In the light of these questions the
problem of sharing lanes between cyclist and bikers looks simply
miserable and mediocre at it's best and is nothing more than a plain
selfishness of some rare cyclist once scared "to death" by unexpected
weak beeping behind him - not Torontonians on behalf of which he tries
to speak here and represent. As a matter of fact such articles can only
spoil even more already badly spoiled image of Torontonians and give
all nontorontonians just another reason to laugh and hate TO for it's
selfishness, greed and lack of plain common sense and wisdom.
I can't
believe how TO Cyclist Union is closely focused on pedals instead of
focusing on much greater danger around them - cars. It's clearly a huge
luck of vision and leadership and is simply compromising of all the
highest goals of cycling itself.
