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“Marvin Macaraig, who coordinates a community biking program called Scarborough Cycles out of the Access Alliance health centre, sees cyclist deaths as a slow-burning health crisis. “Six in a year,” he says. “We shouldn’t shrug our shoulders and say that’s the price of living in a city.”
Macaraig describes Victoria Park as an “imaginary barrier.” On its face, it separates a street with a bike lane from a street without one. But a place without cycling infrastructure rarely becomes a place without cyclists—it just becomes a place where cyclists are less safe.”
Read the full article here, ‘Dividing Line’.
