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By TAMARA CHERRY, SUN MEDIA
At the same intersection where Toronto saw its first cyclist fatality of the year, several cyclists zipped through red lights, road along the crosswalks and navigated the busy sidewalks of Chinatown yesterday.
It was his failure to stop at the red U-turn signal hanging over Spadina Ave. and Nassau St. that police say killed 66-year-old Harold Donald Bilodeau, who turned into the path of a southbound streetcar just after noon Tuesday.
The Toronto man died in St. Michael's Hospital late Thursday afternoon.
"It's not just a streetcar- or a TTC-related issue. That's a problem that we see on a daily basis, that cyclists just don't take enough precautions in their safety," Toronto Police Sgt. Tim Burrows said yesterday.
"There's excellent signage down there ... plenty of opportunity where you can safely and legally make U-turns and turns. The problem was, in this particular case, the cyclist did it against a red light and never took into account the transit system had a green light at the same time."
In a matter of minutes yesterday, 48 hours after Bilodeau was fatally injured, several cyclists cut across the same intersection against red signals. Most of them looked both ways before doing so.
While public interest in cycling has gone up, the number of cycling collisions has gone down, Burrows noted.
TAMARA.CHERRY@SUNMEDIA.CA
By JENNY YUEN, SUN MEDIA
It wasn't the type of lesson the student expected.
A police officer on his bike chased down and fined the first-year U of T student yesterday on St. George St. after he ran a red light on his bicycle. The visibly upset student, who wouldn't give his name, said he was from China and didn't know the rules.
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