Weird Canadian Driving Laws and Other Strange Rules of the Road
October 21st, 2008
"2.) In Ontario, the average speed limit for cars on most roads is 80 km/hour, but bicycles have the right of way. Those bicycles have to be fast!
Because a lot of the laws in Ontario are from the past, some of them have to do with driving non-motorized forms or are about more public forms of transportation. Because they have something to do with the roads on which you drive, we still thought they were worth including.
Please note: This is posted in a blog. Feel free to comment and offer corrections. I know of no roads with 100 kph (or greater) speed limits that allow bicycle or pedestrian access. It is also curious to note the CAA does not offer bicyclists an alternative for getting to destinations other than those roads they appear to express issue with bicyclists using. Furthermore the CAA appears to lobby against bicycling infrastructure at every opportunity.
Comments
dances_with_traffic (not verified)
yuk yuk yuk
Tue, 04/06/2010 - 23:01CAA fails to understand rules of the road. Whomever wrote that needs to look up what right of way means.
Reminds me of that ttc clown a few weeks ago who thought it was hilarious that cyclists should act like cars when trying to turn left. Amazing to think you could spend your whole career driving a bus and never get it.
4 Season Cyclist (not verified)
CAA blog 'laws from the past'
Tue, 04/06/2010 - 23:58last comment on that entry was 2008, until someone posted today ... probably almost no one sees it anyway.
Matthew Todd (not verified)
Stop calling them "accidents"
Wed, 04/07/2010 - 01:29I went on to read more of the blog, and I really detest and abhor the way they refer to crashes and collisions as "accidents."
So rarely are these events truly accidents that we should completely abandon that expression -- nay, the very idea of "traffic accidents" -- and we always use the terms "crash" and/or "collision" instead.
J (not verified)
ugh indeed
Wed, 04/07/2010 - 22:20While the CAA is completely moronic most of the time, i think they should accept the fact that cycling is here to stay and that a joint lobbying effort would help everyone.
For example, the Bike Union could join the CAA Toronto campaign to name the city's worst roads - bad roads are a common problem. Of course this would require a maturity that doesn't exist...
Dawn Davenport (not verified)
Off medication?
Tue, 04/20/2010 - 12:06Thinking accidents aren't sounds like paranoid schizophrenia. There's a lot of it around, and it seems to be endemic among a certain class of (hysterical) cyclist that, to say the least, is NO CREDIT TO THE SPORT.
Instead of indicating the symptoms on a blog, why not get them addressed? Seriously. There's medication for it that really works. Or if you're on something already (more likely than not), maybe you should get it adjusted. Seriously.
Tanya q (not verified)
accidents
Tue, 04/20/2010 - 18:46If an accident has a preventable cause, it was not an accident. Most collisions have preventable causes. Was someone asleep at the wheel, drunk, distracted by a cell phone or a passenger, exceeding the speed limit? Not checking before changing lanes, etc etc.
While it may be a semantic thing here, its important to realize that these so-called accidents usually are preventable.