05-16-2016, 03:39 PM
(05-16-2016, 02:10 PM)timc Wrote: This situation seems a bit confusing to me. If you are using the pedestrian crossing, you should be walking your bike. And motorists are instructed to yield to pedestrians (even if this isn't legally required -- yet). So it seems to me that the driver might have been doing the right thing in this case.
It is confusing, but the law has changed from:
"No person shall ride a bicycle across a roadway within or along a crosswalk at an intersection or at a location other than an intersection which location is controlled by a traffic control signal system. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 144 (29)."
To this:
"No person shall ride or operate a bicycle across a roadway within a crosswalk at an intersection or at a location, other than an intersection, which is controlled by a traffic control signal system. 2015, c. 14, s. 40 (2)."
Cyclists are now allowed to ride "along a crosswalk". In fact, the region is encouraging this in the way they are designing roundabouts (the best examples being Homer Watson-Block Line and Westmount-Laurelwood, not to mention the future Fischer-Hallman & Bleams, which I mentioned in the cycling thread because it actually affects me
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