Mayor John Tory urged cycling advocates to meet with city staff working on a review of transportation in the park, and with police who are handling enforcement.
As cycling advocates push for a string of active transportation-focused retrofits, including a car-free pilot, at a popular west end park, Mayor John Tory placed the microscope on drivers on Wednesday during talks held to quash conflicts between cyclists, police and park users.
“I want everyone to be safe in High Park and everywhere else in the city,” Tory stated. “That includes pedestrians, seniors, families, cyclists, TTC riders, motorists — everybody.” Tory said while everyone is expected to accommodate each other while sharing public spaces, there is a “greater onus,” on car drivers to respect the law, due to the elevated risk of injury created by the operation of motor vehicles.
He wants police to release its enforcement statistic showing the disparity, adding that only a small number of tickets are issued to cyclists or for cyclist-related offences in the High Park area. Cycle Toronto wants to see support for a bicycle yield-as-stop law, which treats stop signs as yield signs but maintains right of way for other road users at intersections, and to ask Ontario Minister of Transportation Caroline Mulroney for a bicycle yield-as-stop change in the provincial Highway Traffic Act.
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