Let's be fair. What causes stress are vehicles of all types not just cars. Yesterday and several times recently, my daily walking partner and I have been on the shared pedestrian/cycling path that runs along the east side of the O-Train tracks. This is a heavily used path, especially in winter by pedestrians. Twice in a short period of time, cyclists (or are they really motor vehicle drivers) on large wheeled electric ''bicycles" whizzed by us from behind. I use the verb "whizzed" quite explicitly. If there is a speed limit on the path, they were clearly exceeding it, especially as we were on that part of the pathway that is not clearly divided, i.e. everywhere north of Gladstone! Vehicles travelling at the speeds those two were should be on the roads, not the pathways. But then its clear that cyclists are a law unto themselves except in rare instances when they actually follow the rules of the road (e.g. stopping for stop signs, staying off the sidewalks, signalling turns, etc.)! Yes, we need pedestrian areas, but in designing them we need to keep all vehicles, including bicycles (motorized or not) and other wheeled vehicles (motorized wheelchairs) in mind as being sources of undue and significant stress!
Let's be fair. What causes stress are vehicles of all types not just cars. Yesterday and several times recently, my daily walking partner and I have been on the shared pedestrian/cycling path that runs along the east side of the O-Train tracks. This is a heavily used path, especially in winter by pedestrians. Twice in a short period of time, cyclists (or are they really motor vehicle drivers) on large wheeled electric ''bicycles" whizzed by us from behind. I use the verb "whizzed" quite explicitly. If there is a speed limit on the path, they were clearly exceeding it, especially as we were on that part of the pathway that is not clearly divided, i.e. everywhere north of Gladstone! Vehicles travelling at the speeds those two were should be on the roads, not the pathways. But then its clear that cyclists are a law unto themselves except in rare instances when they actually follow the rules of the road (e.g. stopping for stop signs, staying off the sidewalks, signalling turns, etc.)! Yes, we need pedestrian areas, but in designing them we need to keep all vehicles, including bicycles (motorized or not) and other wheeled vehicles (motorized wheelchairs) in mind as being sources of undue and significant stress!