CAT | law
The Canadian Police Information Centre is the agency in Canada which maintains criminal and police records. It also maintains a database of stolen vehicles – including bicycles – which is searchable online. One can enter the serial number for any bicycle in the Bicycle Search section of their web page to see if they have [...]
Comes the story of a man in North Carolina who was driving on Sunday morning when he saw a man cycling on a busy road with his 3 year old son in a bike seat on the back of the bike. The driver was angered by the cyclist bringing his child with him onto a [...]
Sometimes the approach to problems taken by the City of Ottawa and its institutions boggles my mind, yet nobody seems to notice. On cbc.ca this evening there was an article discussing the fate of the male driver charged with 5 counts of leaving the scene of a collision after colliding with running through 5 cyclists [...]
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7 People
6 Comments | Posted by Adam in Gatineau, Ottawa, commuting, cycling deaths, law, safety
This is the number of cyclists who have been taken to hospital since Saturday morning due to collisions with vehicles. 5 cyclists were hit on Saturday morning in a hit and run on March Road in Kanata, on Tuesday night a man was hit on Ogilvie Road and on Wednesday morning a man in Gatineua [...]
Take the Lane rips into some forthcoming modifications to Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act, including its outdated requirement that cyclists have “reflective tape” on their bikes when cycling at night, and the lack of a provision forcing motorists to give cyclists a one-meter berth when passing, as advised by the driver’s handbook.
Readers are advised to write [...]
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The right to bike
1 Comment | Posted by Padraic in Europe, activism, law, organizations, other cities, police
While this blog has waxed ambivalent on Critical Mass before, I have to say I was heartened to see that the British House of Lords has over-ruled attempet at police restrictions on the event. Essentially, the police wanted to require “prior notice of the ride’s date, time and route and the names and addresses of [...]
