Phone Check

Is this considered a moving violation (similar to vehicles on the road)? Cyclists using the roadways must also adhere to the rules of the road. Are handheld devices a violation for cyclists too? Does beg the question as pedestrians and other motorists are at risk regardless of your mode of transportation.

Apparently they don't. I've tried to argument so many times and it always comes to this: they can run red lights, kill people on the side walk, provoke accdents on the road - no matter what they do, they will never be held accountable. As soon as car drivers hop on a bike, they break the law as well, since nobody gives a damn. Breaking the law is only a problem for car drivers - and as long as the police is not doing anything - cyclist will always break the law...

And when he gets hit, the car and driver will be the victim. Due to a legal loophole this can also be done while impaired by alcohol on both motorized and unmotorized bikes. Will the Toronto police ever start doing their job? "To Serve and Protect"

Ugh what a totally unsafe, stupid thing to do. And no helmet in sight! I am saying that as someone who rides a bicycle every day but I am NOT going to call myself a cyclist if it means I'll be lumped in with the sidewalk riding, traffic weaving, red light running lot. There are plenty of folks like me who happily follow the rules and are completely pissed off by the asshats who give everyone on a bike a bad name. We don't all suck. /rant

K.C.

All drivers suck. I see drivers in cars running stops signs and rolling right turns at reds without looking on a daily basis. In my short 15 minute commute I see more drivers talking on their phone's, doing their make-up, eating or anything BUT paying attention to the road then I can count.

Cyclists do this to, so what's your point? The issue isn't who is right or wrong, but enforcement. The reality is that cars are far more dangerous on the road than cyclists will ever be and therefore they are the ones who get policed. Don't like it? Get a bike and start biking to work, that's what I did.

"kill people on the side walk"
That happens so rarely it's statistically insignificant. From what I remember of the Toronto Police stats it's 1 every 10 years or so. You want to know what the number one road fatality is? Drivers killing pedestrians.

My point is that car drivers get fined when they break the law, cyclists get away with anything.