Walkable, cycleable neighbourhoods- a personal history

[shootingstar]

Lovely.

Admit I wish Toronto was more friendly to ride in. Drivers are inattentive, roads are often clogged and the street car tracks are a real menace. Friend is an ER doctor, and he says there are broken arms and shoulders every day in the summer after the tracks jumped up and trapped some innocent cyclists' wheel. Been there myself, twice too many times.

I'm sorry to hear Boudicca. I was careful on streetcar streets and actually would avoid them if I could.

University of British Columbia in Vancouver has a lead professor who has been doing research on cycling injuries in Vancouver and Toronto as the cities where she drew her population data. She has drawn from specific hospitals in Vancouver and Toronto. I believe in Toronto at St. Michael's Hospital downtown, she has a lead physician there in this study. (I know, because my sister works at the hospital (pharmacy dept.) and she reads internal staff research news.)

Kay Teschke is the research. Her protégé to take after her when she retires, Meghan Winters.

I didn't hear anything about cycling injuries every day in City of Toronto during the summer. Not sure which hospital your friend works at. (My sister is an ER Dr. 100 km. north of Toronto. If there was a serious trend, she would have warned me...as a concerned sibling.)

http://cyclingincities.spph.ubc.ca/
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...PH.2012.300762
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2009/0...-in-vancouver/

[Boudicca]

I'm sorry to hear Boudicca. I was careful on streetcar streets and actually would avoid them if I could.

University of British Columbia in Vancouver has a lead professor who has been doing research on cycling injuries in Vancouver and Toronto as the cities where she drew her population data. She has drawn from specific hospitals in Vancouver and Toronto. I believe in Toronto at St. Michael's Hospital downtown, she has a lead physician there in this study. (I know, because my sister works at the hospital (pharmacy dept.) and she reads internal staff research news.)

Kay Teschke is the research. Her protégé to take after her when she retires, Meghan Winters.

I didn't hear anything about cycling injuries every day in City of Toronto during the summer. Not sure which hospital your friend works at. (My sister is an ER Dr. 100 km. north of Toronto. If there was a serious trend, she would have warned me...as a concerned sibling.)

http://cyclingincities.spph.ubc.ca/
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...PH.2012.300762
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2009/0...-in-vancouver/

He might have been exaggerating when he said "every day" but it was certainly a common injury. And I don't think I know any Toronto riders who have not fallen in the tracks at least once.

Not sure what anyone can do though. Transit is as important as bikes. Well maybe.