On Riding in the Snow

Its is precipitating, it was snow this morning and probably rain by now. The roads are soaking, so are my socks and shoes. Obviously I biked to work. I have to admit, when I ride its like all the stress goes away for a little while and I can just zone out of everything. Until an annoying driver strikes.

Regular readers of my blog may recall that on June 12 I reported that I had told the local police at 55 Division about an altercation I had with a VW driver on Queen between Parliament and Broadview.

This time I did not even bother to tell the driver he was an idiot, I made sure to get a good look at his face so that I will recognize him in court, but my focus was get the licence plate, make and model of the car. Now here is the full story:

Yesterday, on Queen Street as I passed over the Don Valley Parkway (just East of River Street) a driver in a black Toyota Rav-4 (recent model, Toyota redesigned the Rav-4 in the 2006 model year and this was an '06 or later model) licence 'NUF STUF' (not smart to drive badly when you have vanity plates) crowded me in my own lane.

Later when I tried to catch up with the driver he ran a pedestrian cross-walk where a pedestrian was about to start crossing. (Thus violating no less than two different sections of the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, improper lane change, and illegal entry into a pedestrian cross over, I would also say reckless endangerment of human life, but that is a rant for another day.)

Since it is Queen Street and I am on the bike, naturally I went faster than the car and caught up with him at every single traffic light from Broadview until he turned off Queen just East of Carlaw. So if this matter does go to court, I'd like to think I have a pretty good idea what this guy looks like. And go to court it will, I hope, I reported it to the same people at 55 Division that I reported the VW driver to.

Drivers on Queen Street, beware of cyclists. One of them just might report your inability to operate a two ton killing machine to the authorities and then your two ton killing machine insurance will go up.