02-02-2017, 04:26 PM
(02-02-2017, 01:46 PM)Markster Wrote: Here is where the bicycle is laying in the photo from CTV:
https://goo.gl/maps/ciU5iKy1d7G2
That would mean the collision probably happened a little up the road.
My guess is that the cyclist was on the road, and was merging across the lane that enters in from the highway. It's pretty bad cycling up there, because you're going uphill, slowly, and then suddenly you're now in the middle lane instead of to the right, and the right lane now has people coming in at highway speeds. It's very difficult to get out the way of all the drivers.
The cyclist being in their 60s means they probably weren't familiar with the relatively new MUT. This is how they've always cycled up King St. The MUT does exist at this point. Though once you hit the ION station at Conestoga, they still haven't paved the sidewalk, so it would currently be a snowy mess after the Conestoga entrance.
I... uhh....
What?
If anything, my logic would deduce that someone in their 60s cycling on a Tuesday morning in February is an avid cyclist, one that would know and care about the trails around an otherwise concrete heap of land.
Unless you're inferring that their age absolutely makes this a pleasure ride they infrequently take, ignoring every other parameter.
Although owning a Fuji that likely cost a few thousand dollards doesn't scream "February morning ignorant pleasure ride" either.
Having seen it on my commute this morning from both directions - slowed on the expressway and retracing my usual route south on King - I agree with Markster's version of events - it very much looked like someone had taken the street in lieu of the snowed-over MUT (best view I could find was this photo from Twitter), and as the lane merged with the offramp, the driver doing highway speeds comes up from behind on the cyclist and sends them to their untimely death.