The drama in High Park continues. Between police ticketing cyclists, and overly concerned citizens following riders and filming them to see if they stop at signs, the debacle continues.
Recently, a dedicated Toronto citizen started a Facebook group called “Report the cyclists in high park”, seemingly to find cyclists who are “speeding” or rolling through stop signs.
The speed limit in the park is 20 km/h, and police have ticketed offending riders if they are a hair over that, even down a hill.
The founder of the group, who refers to themselves as “an activist” has been posting non-stop about how they have been reporting offenders to the police.
“I’m over here at high park I was driving threw and coming up on stop sign across from Grenadier Restaurant a lady and her baby which she had on her back were crossing and as they were three cyclists came flying threw the stop sign without stopping they nearly hit the women but they kept going the lady was shocked I told her don’t worry I’m doing everything I can to get rid of these ego maniacs she said that’s not the first time that’s happened to me after that I called my direct line to 11 division they said they will send some officers over as I mentioned earlier I’m doing everything I can to make sure these guys don’t get the time of day when it comes to finding from city hall and queens park they don’t deserve any consideration at all based on there ways yours truly the activist.”
This guy took a radar gun to Toronto’s High Park to check the speed of cars
They also followed a cyclist along, filming him, as he rolled through a stop sign. The motorists also barely stopped at the same sign, which is hilarious.
The best part of the group is now there are cyclists who are posting amazing comments.
“Good morning high park people nice day just hit 69km/h on my penny farthing bicycle riding downhill through the park challenged a cop to a race but he said he was busy harassing others and to leave him alone, maybe the activist wants to race next time and we can both show off our legs in lycra.”
A Toronto police officer hit a cyclist when he was ticketing riders in High Park
One person even suggested the best solution was to casually build a few velodromes to get cyclists off the road. Because everyday cyclists would love to ride on a steeply-banked for kicks.
“I have no political influence at all… But if anybody does, here is an idea: get the city to build a velodrome, in…
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