{"id":2227,"date":"2007-08-23T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2007-08-23T22:05:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T02:05:38","slug":"happy-birthday-mybikelane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/08\/23\/happy-birthday-mybikelane\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday MyBikeLane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the original <a href=\"http:\/\/nyc.mybikelane.com\/\">MyBikeLane New York<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>By my reckoning, MyBikeLane is 1 year old today! Congratulations to the innovator of this pioneering open-source people&#8217;s law enforcement site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.mybikelane.com\/1\/post\/e\/main_3504.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But look at us! <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.mybikelane.com\/\">Toronto&#8217;s MyBikeLane<\/a> is number two after NY with 370 posts and 40 members. Unfortunately, we do have lots of opportunities for photos here in the T-dot, especially on <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.mybikelane.com\/?tag=bay\">Bay<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.mybikelane.com\/?tag=college\">College<\/a> streets. Here is a pic added by Vic of one sadly typical infraction on College street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.mybikelane.com\/39\/post\/f\/main_2556.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have been having some harrowing experiences on College lately myself. So, one night last week I decided to print off this flyer (below) that originally appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/torontoist.com\/2007\/03\/roadside_assist.php\">here<\/a> in a Torontoist post by Marc Lostracco. As I smiled and handed the flyer to people through their car windows, most of them unwittingly smiled and said &#8220;thank you.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what else to do. My daily &#8220;motorist information sessions&#8221; (which some casual observers *might* call &#8220;yelling matches&#8221;) don&#8217;t seem to be helping either. I&#8217;m trying to stay calm, but I believe it is a natural instinct to defend oneself when one&#8217;s life is threatened.<\/p>\n<p>On June 24, Toronto Police Services <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiketo.ca\/node\/383\">issued the results<\/a> of their one-week &#8220;Safe Cycling&#8221; campaign. They had issued a total of 49 tickets for parking in the bike lane. The fine is 30 dollars for parking in a &#8220;no parking&#8221; zone and 60 for a &#8220;no stopping&#8221; zone. Not much of a deterrent &#8212; especially when it is normally not enforced.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/198\/480233965_f8b57a57c4_o.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently, a 16-year-old girl <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/nationalpost\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2007\/08\/16\/urban-scrawl-the-hazards-of-cycling-in-the-city.aspx\">wrote of her own disturbing experiences<\/a> simply trying to commute by bicycle to her summer job. Not surprisingly, this invoked a furor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/nationalpost\/news\/toronto\/story.html?id=0b332abb-89a4-4787-91e0-f6e115df0d69\">letters in response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, there has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2221\">lively discourse here<\/a> on Spacing, regarding the very real dangers of cycling in our city. I&#8217;d like to wish a speedy recovery to Geoffrey. I&#8217;m especially shocked to hear that the police did not file an accident report. It&#8217;s bad enough they don&#8217;t enforce the no-stopping law, but to blatantly disregard a life-threatening assault like this? This is a shame.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crossposted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiketo.ca\/\">I Bike TO<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the original MyBikeLane New York: By my reckoning, MyBikeLane is 1 year old today! Congratulations to the innovator of this pioneering open-source people&#8217;s law enforcement site. But look at us! Toronto&#8217;s MyBikeLane is number two after NY with 370 posts and 40 members. Unfortunately, we do have lots of opportunities for photos here in<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/08\/23\/happy-birthday-mybikelane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Happy Birthday MyBikeLane&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,9],"tags":[6573,6572,3454,469,6571,19,391],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-media","category-traffic","tag-car-windows","tag-law-enforcement-site","tag-marc-lostracco","tag-new-york","tag-no-stopping-law","tag-toronto","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday MyBikeLane  - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/08\/23\/happy-birthday-mybikelane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Birthday MyBikeLane  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the original MyBikeLane New York: By my reckoning, MyBikeLane is 1 year old today! 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