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Lawyer and cycling advocate David Shellnutt tells blogTO that despite changes in the park,"some things will remain the same and that means a police service with a misdirected focus on cyclists in parks."
"So misdirected, that in a video shot by another park user, motorists can be seen rolling stop signs within eye shot of the police officer that was harassing and ticketing this cyclist." Shellnutt calls the interaction"perverse and indicative of an anti-cyclist bias," noting how"this cyclist had been safely doing loops and safe yields for at least an hour while police looked on, then, based on whatever whim they felt emboldened by decided to irregularly enforce a serious penalty traffic violation."
The police interaction comes on the heels of a particularly heated summer of protests and conflict between cyclists and motorists over changes to the park's vehicle access. Tensions reached a peak earlier in August when a, including a bizarre incident with a City-employed protestor. High Park is in the spotlight over the car-bike divide once again, however, this enforcement blitz is nothing new. Police wielding radar guns have been a regular sight in the park for years, and cyclists took a stand against a similar clamp-down in the park in 2022.
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