I spent the last few days moving into my new place in Parkdale, so I was traveling by cargo van or car half the time. On Monday, I headed north on Dufferin and made a left west on to Queen. My girlfriend noticed that Gladstone and Queen to the east was blocked off by police tape. She could also see a bike under a truck. In the evening, she heard a streetcar driver talking glibly to a passenger about a “schmuck who slid under a truck and went splat. Dead.”
Spacing editor Shawn Micallef passed the scene around the same time as me and wrote about it on the Toronto Psychogeography Society blog. There were no media reports in any of the papers.
If we push our City Councillors to full-heartedly implement their very own Bike Plan, it is quite possible that car-on-cyclist collisions will decrease significantly. And we can avoid ugly and unnecessary scenes like some of us saw yesterday.
