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Ashok Argent–Katwala

We’ve come a long way as a city in 70-odd years.

Motorists can now routinely break the rules with little chance of getting a ticket. 😔

“Even Metro Chair Gardiner, reacting to a record $10,000 in fines imposed on local motorists in a single day in April 1953, suggested that "traffic regulations are such you can't avoid getting a ticket" - but his insinuation was that the rules were the problem.”

From Albert Koehl’s excellent “Wheeling Through Toronto”:

utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.

Screenshot of an ebook, where a section near the end is highlighted, with the quotation from the toot. Full text follows: Constable Dickson complained that city streets had become "an open air garage." In 1929 Toronto police laid over 30,000 charges against motorists for infractions under municipal, provincial, and federal laws; by the 1950s, the number had risen to over 400,000. Road violations were so common that the motorist suffered little stigma, except in the case of criminal charges, although drinking and driving might still be laughed off. Speeding by drivers was an offence often excused as a "heavy foot" or with a smirk, at least by motorists, even though each increment in a driver's speed increased the risk of serious injury or death for a person hit by the vehicle. The motorist remained fascinated with speed, despite its obvious harms. Even Metro Chair Gardiner, reacting to a record $10,000 in fines imposed on local motorists in a single day in April 1953, suggested that "traffic regulations are such you can't avoid getting a ticket" - but his insinuation was that the rules were the problem. Simply keeping track of the rising number of
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Ashok Argent–Katwala

If I called the relevant police division and said someone hit me with a 32oz baseball bat, I bet they wouldn’t tell me to report it in person at a designated “hitting people with baseball bats” reporting centre.

Being annoyed at a pedestrian crossing with the right of way when you’re in slow moving traffic, and they shout at you to stop, you do and then you decide to go anyway & floor it and they’re dead-centre of your car should be attempted fucking murder and I’m all the way annoyed.

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Cameron MacLeod

Psychology Today: “Boring Cities Bore People”

By building car-centric neighborhoods …we force people to trek long distances to get what they need.

…the same with leisure, recreation, dining or connection to cultural events. By disconnecting these activities from where we live, making them only accessible by car, we rob ourselves of the opportunity to connect with each other. And a life without meaningful connection is a boring life.”

psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/

Psychology TodayBoring Cities Bore PeopleThe way we make our cities and neighbourhoods has consequences for our mental well-being — designing boring cities will make for bored people.
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Cameron MacLeod

Ten mins early. Hundreds of cyclists at Queen’s Park already for #CycleTO rally against downgrade streets and endangering the public. Remember, bike lanes reduce car crashes, cyclist fatalities, and pedestrian fatalities. They reduce road maintenance needs. They increase street-level retail. And they don’t slow down emergency services in Toronto, according to Toronto EMS.

Photo of Queen’s Park lawn with hundreds of cyclists.
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Ashok Argent–Katwala

We should learn from the UK, where many forces have done this for years.

To get to #VisionZero in Toronto, we must prosecute bad drivers based on evidence from the general public. I have many pictures & footage; I’d absolutely show up in court.

If the city may not, ON & CA should allow it.

When I’ve asked police and elected officials why we can’t do that here, they’ve been nonplussed.

Let’s do more, sooner, to stop people _before_ they kill and maim.

#walkTO #bikeTO rouge.eu.org/@jfparis/11266772

Rouge.eu.org💉💉💉🦠JF :debian: :verbike: (@jfparis@rouge.eu.org)@ascentale@sfba.social @marcprecipice@xoxo.zone A7: Replying from the UK. The local police in this country are welcoming video footage from pedestrians/ cyclists and drivers dashcams and they use it to prosecute #UkShitDrivers. Phone whilst driving & close passes are regularly enforced. If you submit you have to agree to go to court. In most cases the driver accepts the conditional offer but some wants to go to plead not guilty or try to get away #BikeNite
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