Candidates in the upcoming municipal election have seized on the dispute as evidence that City Hall has mismanaged the park.
Biking advocates and city leaders are hoping to put the brakes on an “alarming” conflict between cyclists, police, and park lovers in Toronto’s west end.
“You just have to be really, really alert,” she said. “And you can’t expect a stop sign to save your neck … these guys don’t stop.” “Every day that we cycle we see a car parked in a bike lane, someone cut us off at a right turn. None of this is enforced,” Shellnutt said. Brabant said officers were deployed to High Park “to help keep the community safe” after receiving complaints about riders and other road users speeding. She said their approach has been “to educate and caution cyclists” who go above the posted 20 km/h limit or commit other offences like failing to stop at a stop sign, and to issue tickets “when necessary.”
In a news release Thursday Siri Agrell, a council candidate in what’s expected to be a hard-fought race in Ward 4, Parkdale—High Park, blamed “a failure of local leadership” by four-term incumbent Gord Perks.
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