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Post date: Sep 25, 2014 9:41:27 PM
The City of Ottawa is demonstrating its incompetence as it pursues its policy to treat cyclists differently from other road users. Some say treats them as second class road users.
The pictures below are very recent examples of,
(i) use of non-regulatory signs to confuse cyclists and motorists alike at new roundabouts - this one on Trim Road which appears to instruct cyclists to dismount and walk around the roundabout,
(ii) a cyclists' left turn box northbound on Churchill Avenue at Dovercourt Avenue. The latter is an opposite direction one way street as indicated by an "arrow" sign, as well as a "no entry" sign. This looks like an invitation for cyclists to squeeze into the narrow exit lane or to ride on the sidewalk.
Where uncertainty is created, conflict occurs ...
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