Get a (BATH)room
Re: “The Growler’s guide to drinking in public”, May 21, 2015
Hey, Asshole [Stephen Smysniuk], you don’t care for other people (non-alcoholics, i.e. the majority of the population) or wildlife and the environment. Piss off, and not outside.
–Anonynous
Stay in your lane
To all the brain dead individuals who are oblivious to the rest of the world around them: Get off the bike lane! It is not a glorified sidewalk for your ignorant enjoyment. How about you walk in the middle of oncoming traffic instead!
–Noah One
stand up to cyclists
Re: “VPD continue crackdown on sidewalk cyclists”, May 21, 2015
I don’t see any “crackdown” on sidewalk cyclists at all. This is a lie. I walk our fair city’s sidewalk constantly and I’ve never seen a cyclist getting “pulled over” because they are on the sidewalk. Never. Not once in the past 22 sequential years that I’ve lived/worked/walked in the West End. Downtown, Coal Harbour, Gastown, Chinatown, Crosstown, Yaletown areas. I see cyclists on sidewalks, with and without helmets, daily. And sometimes right in front of VPD and I see no action.
Now, I don’t want to slam the VPD – I get that cyclists on the sidewalk are not a high priority in this city with all the other issues at hand. I’d rather have the VPD fighting the big fights rather than standing around on sidewalks to ticket these low-level bi-law breakers.
Having said that, I take issue with this recent article that states VPD is cracking down on sidewalk cyclists. VPD is proud of their 733 tickets over the past four years. Really? For the entire city of Vancouver that’s one ticket every second day. I see anywhere from two to 10 cyclists on sidewalks in Yaletown and Downtown every day. I don’t think enforcement is going to change this behaviour. I believe pedestrians need to take the sidewalk back and have the City and VPD support them when they do.
–Leeanne Barr
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