Bicycles are ILLEGAL, on both street and sidewalk, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[Mercury]

Anyone going to Toronto, Ontario faces more than it being completely illegal for guys to be out in public unaccompanied, in addition to that, bicycles are completely illegal within the City of Toronto. It is completely illegal to even own a bicycle in Toronto, and bicycles can not be operated and ridden within the City of Toronto. Not on the street, not in parking lots, not in alleyways, not on hiking trails, and not on the sidewalk. All lanes marked as so-called "bike lanes" are for motorcycles. Under Toronto city law, no vehicle or wheeled item that is unpowered and/or incapable of a top speed of 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) or faster is allowed to be operated within the City of Toronto. Violations carry a mandatory sentence of up to five years in prison.

[name withheld]

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[hb2345]

Good. You cycling faggots are annoying as shit. Bicycles don't belong in the cities because they slow down car traffic. Leave it for the suburbs and outside of the city.

[Yohan]

Good. You cycling faggots are annoying as shit. Bicycles don't belong in the cities because they slow down car traffic. Leave it for the suburbs and outside of the city.

What Mercury writes is always exaggerated, but it is always some truth in his comments.

Bicycles riders are indeed everywhere an annoyance and a headache for people walking, for people driving a car or riding a motorcycle. A danger for trucks and buses - and not only in Toronto...in every city I know...

Bicycle riders are often totally ignoring any traffic rule. Drunk, as no driving license required anyway, they don't care about red traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, one-way lanes, no insurance in case of traffic accidents, bicycles often have no lights front and rear despite it is dark already...

I think, bicycles should also be registered, with obligatory insurance, helmet required, riders be fined in case ignoring traffic rules....

[MrMan]

Good. You cycling faggots are annoying as shit. Bicycles don't belong in the cities because they slow down car traffic. Leave it for the suburbs and outside of the city.

What Mercury writes is always exaggerated, but it is always some truth in his comments.

Bicycles riders are indeed everywhere an annoyance and a headache for people walking, for people driving a car or riding a motorcycle. A danger for trucks and buses - and not only in Toronto...in every city I know...

Bicycle riders are often totally ignoring any traffic rule. Drunk, as no driving license required anyway, they don't care about red traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, one-way lanes, no insurance in case of traffic accidents, bicycles often have no lights front and rear despite it is dark already...

I think, bicycles should also be registered, with obligatory insurance, helmet required, riders be fined in case ignoring traffic rules....

I remember a student in college complaining that students did not look out for bikes when I was in college. The road was closed except for bikes-- maybe campus buses also. I'd see bikes whiz down the hill through a crowd trying to keep momentum to go up the hill. I told this guy that bikes zoom by instead of slowing down for foot traffic and going at an appropriate speed.

If a pedestrian steps into a cross walk traffic is supposed to slow down.

I road a bike for a few years, catching a bus up the hill to grad school a lot of the time, then riding it home at night. If I went out two late, the traffic light would change before I could cross the street, so I would push the button to cross for safety. I think I might have been required to use a helmet. I know I had to have lights at night. I tried not to be wild. It's dangerous to ride a bike if you get in the way or don't watch out.

[traveller]

I think, bicycles should also be registered, helmet required....

Christopher Reeve was wearing a helmet when he was thrown from his horse. And he was still paralyzed from the neck down, he was permanently quadriplegic. In other words, helmets, including on a bicycle, may save your head, but they won't save your neck! Especially for street riders that face the most common form of collision, which is getting smashed in the rear by a reckless driver doing ten times the speed limit, thrown over 100+ feet through the air and into the curb, and killed, or paralyzed, while the driver that hit the cyclist keeps right on going, ten times the speed limit, with no more damage than a dent in the front bumper. Even if you are wearing a helmet, that kind of impact can still kill you by breaking your neck! It can also leave you permanently paralyzed from the neck down, exactly like what happened to Christopher Reeve when he was thrown from his horse. A car that hits a cyclist on the sidewalk would blow a tire on the curb and probably also tear up the undercarriage, possibly disabling the car.

[Mercury]

I think, bicycles should also be registered, helmet required....

Christopher Reeve was wearing a helmet when he was thrown from his horse. And he was still paralyzed from the neck down, he was permanently quadriplegic. In other words, helmets, including on a bicycle, may save your head, but they won't save your neck! Especially for street riders that face the most common form of collision, which is getting smashed in the rear by a reckless driver doing ten times the speed limit, thrown over 100+ feet through the air and into the curb, and killed, or paralyzed, while the driver that hit the cyclist keeps right on going, ten times the speed limit, with no more damage than a dent in the front bumper. Even if you are wearing a helmet, that kind of impact can still kill you by breaking your neck! It can also leave you permanently paralyzed from the neck down, exactly like what happened to Christopher Reeve when he was thrown from his horse. A car that hits a cyclist on the sidewalk would blow a tire on the curb and probably also tear up the undercarriage, possibly disabling the car.

You may think a car hitting you on the sidewalk would get it's bottom torn up on the curb, but you don't know if it's a stolen car! You could be riding on the sidewalk and have a car come crashing right onto the sidewalk and hitting you, and then you could wake up in the hospital only to learn that the car that hit you on your bike was a stolen car, gained through an armed carjacking, and that right after the collision, the suspects abandoned the car and carjacked another family at gunpoint and are still at large, and are in fact even wanted for armed carjacking, firearm attack on a law enforcement officer, drug trafficking/smuggling, they could even be cop killers wanted for multiple counts of capital murder. Stolen cars are considered very disposable, hence the thieves bang the car up while driving it, and when it becomes so damaged that it can no longer be driven or it runs out of gas, they simply abandon the vehicle and steal another vehicle.