Bicycle on Toronto Highway at night gets "Police Escort" /s

[GTA Driver]

 

[Nigel]

Presumably riding at night with no lights is illegal?

 

[kamkar]

You can actually ride a bicycle on the side of most Danish highways, but at road as large as in the picture constitute a motorway here, and there you cant ride a bicycle / or mopeds / or tractors / or walk.
But you will often see a bicycle path there, as keeping to the law and being good motor or cyclist, then driving in close proximity to cars moving at 80 km/h highway speeds are risky.
And of course you need to have light on your bicycle at night, if you don't you risk getting run over, and a fine if a policeman can bother to do his job.

Police here are so stretched out that if someone get stabbed with a knife, they will only investigate if the perp are well known, otherwise they don't have times for such mundane stuff with the manning of today.

My country are broken by the people we elect to maintain it

 

[DT MI]

Presumably riding at night with no lights is illegal?

Bicycles (and other low power vehicles like scooters, mini-bikes, etc.) are prohibited on major roadways regardless of lighting. Police in this case were protecting him from his own stupidity, and hopefully citing him when it's safe to do so - although in some cases Darwin's Law should be allowed to run its course.

 

[GTA Driver]

The Don Valley Parkway is defined as an expressway. It has a median between the two directions, with no stop lights or signs. Its speed limit is 90 kmh, whereas 400 series highway road have a speed limit of 100. The road goes thru a few name change as it goes thru municipalities or regions within one municipality, but driving this on this expressway in a west, then south direction for 140 KM will take one to the US border. In short, as almost bad as driving a bike on the Inter state expressways in the US.

Its Ontario law, and I never knew then until I looked it up, but according to http://www.rbinc-sports.com/ontario-cycling-laws

hta62(17) - Lights​

a bike must have a white front light and a red rear light or reflector if you ride between 1/2 hour before sunset and 1/2 hour after sunrise and white reflective tape on the front forks and red reflective tape on rear forks. Set fine: $20.00​

But I would never know unless I looked it up that I don't ride a bike and if I do see a bicycle in the evening, rarely does it have lights

 

[DAP]

Bicycles (and other low power vehicles like scooters, mini-bikes, etc.) are prohibited on major roadways regardless of lighting. Police in this case were protecting him from his own stupidity, and hopefully citing him when it's safe to do so - although in some cases Darwin's Law should be allowed to run its course.

In California, bicycles are banned from the freeway as long as there is an alternative road that they can use. I often see bicycles riding on the shoulder of the 101 freeway because there are many sections where that is the only road.

 

[kamkar]

When i was a kid / much younger and pedaled a lot, then i always kept off the highways, and used smaller secondary roads to get around.
And still once a guy towing a camper dident give me enough space, so his camper hit my tent / gear on the back of my cycle and sent me head first into a ditch.
The guy dident even stop, but he did turn into a caravan centre up the road, so i got to give him a scolding there.

And the 3/4 foot wide cycle "path" on the side of a highway aint much, even for a experienced Danish cyclist, and cars do 80 km/h ( 50 MPH ) here, so any hit and it will be very bad for the totally unprotected cyclist.



Luckily you can turn to bicycle navigation in google maps and i assume you can here choose to only use roads with a proper bicycle path, or secondary roads where granted the speed are also 80 KMH / 50 MPH but at least the traffic load are much less on those roads.

PS. little Denmark have over 10.000 KM of dedicated bicycle paths, so no problem getting around in all of this little country in safety. ( from one end to the other of Jutland the largest part of Denmark its only 332 km as the crow fly )

 

[GTA Driver]

Seems bicycle riders on this expressway has a happened a few times and its possible its an Uber eats or other delivery service. Some on posted a video on Reddit of an Uber eats on the same stretch of road but this time in broad daylight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoDriving/comments/dw3gnt

 

[DT MI]

In California, bicycles are banned from the freeway as long as there is an alternative road that they can use.

No exceptions like that in Michigan.

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