Urban cyclists, and what to do about them.

[devonin]

It's at least a possibility that if you simply banned bicycles in high pedestrian areas, and forbade them from using the road in such places, that there would become areas of town that I simply couldn't transport myself to without either walking for way longer than I need to, or having to pay for a bus.

In Ontario, bicycles are actually classified as vehicles, and are -required- to stay on the road, and behave much more like a car than a pedestrian. In fact, if I were to make a left turn on a red light on a bike, or run through a stopsign on a bike, and the police caught me, I would actually get demerits on my driver's lisence in addition to a fine.