Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)

[Admiral Beez]

No, the dump truck didn't swerve into the bike lane, so the root cause was not the dump truck. The cyclist swerved due to a dumpster not the dump truck. We don't know that the dump truck driver didn't see her or was driving too fast as that wasn't discussed on the news.

The cyclist may well have swerved into the dump truck. We don't know. Some of the headlines and bylines were stupidly written. It's as if no one in the professional news business goes to journalism school anymore, takes a simple English class nor cracks open Truss' famous and useful book.

A cyclist is dead after she was struck by the driver of a large commercial truck in Yorkville Thursday morning,
On Thursday morning, a 24-year-old female cyclist was killed by a truck driver
Dump truck driver hits and kills cyclist on Bloor near Queen’s Park

These headlines suggests a person, who tangentially happens to be a truck driver struck, hit and killed the cyclist. Imagine a similar headline of: Boeing 737 pilot hits a goose. Did he walk into the park and punch a goose, or did the aircraft he was operating collide with a goose? The driver did not hit the cyclist, the truck he was operating did. Let's see if the driver made any errors or if the cyclist, upon encountering the dumpster, exited her lane and rode into/under the truck.

 

[turbanplanner]

No, the dump truck didn't swerve into the bike lane, so the root cause was not the dump truck. The cyclist swerved due to a dumpster not the dump truck. We don't know that the dump truck driver didn't see her or was driving too fast as that wasn't discussed on the news.

It's almost as if what I mentioned is a repeating trend, large trucks with poor visibility hitting peoeple....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fatal-pedestrian-dump-truck-davisville-1.6997443

Dump truck driver charged after pedestrian killed crossing street in Toronto - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

Toronto police say the driver of a dump truck that struck and killed a 53-year-old man in November has been charged.

globalnews.ca

Elderly woman killed after being hit by dump truck in Oshawa: Cops

Durham Regional Police say the deadly collision occurred at the intersection of Bond St. W. and Centre St. N. around 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday.

www.elliotlakestandard.ca

Cement truck driver pleads guilty to careless driving causing death in 2019 North York incident - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

Giorgio Cipollone pleaded guilty to careless driving causing death, a Highway Traffic Act offence, on Wednesday.

globalnews.ca

 

[generalcanada]

dan leckie bike lane update:

Full installation delayed till 2025. Curb cuts to be done in august

Effectively delayed a full year. Thats both the portland side and the dan leckie side

Though unsure if the dan leckie side gets installed in october 2024 or 2025?

 

[Northern Light]

dan leckie bike lane update:

Full installation delayed till 2025. Curb cuts to be done in august

Effectively delayed a full year. Thats both the portland side and the dan leckie side

Though unsure if the dan leckie side gets installed in october 2024 or 2025?View attachment 584364

The Dan Leckie portion is slated for this October (2025); Portland street is deferred to 2025.