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‘The cabbie must’ve wanted to shrug him off, but he drove right into him’: Witness recounts skateboarder’s death
Ben Drory was waiting in a bus shelter on King Street Monday evening at about 6 p.m. when he saw a silver taxi driving west, with a skateboarder hanging onto the left side of the vehicle.
“They were both in motion at a pretty high speed,” he said. “The skateboarder was rapping onto the windows pretty aggressively.”
Moments later the skateboarder, 28-year-old Ralph Bissonnette, was dead on the curb and the driver was on his way to being charged with second-degree murder.
Stop signs cause more harm than good, some experts say
The red octagonal sign is among the most recognizable features of a car-centred society, but drivers have a complex relationship with the ubiquitous STOP sign, one rooted in human nature and behavioural psychology.
There is a growing movement, in fact, to do away with stop signs altogether.
“As a whole, signs are not particularly powerful determinants of behaviour,” said U.K. traffic consultant Ben Hamilton-Baillie. “I’ve never seen anyone light up a cigarette in a church, but I’ve also never seen a sign that says ‘no smoking.’ There’s a powerful, socially determined cue going on there.” (Photo: Darren Calabrese/National Post)
The Week That Wasn’t: Hurry up and wait
Toronto has longest commutes in country: StatsCan
The average worker in Toronto requires 33 minutes to get to work each day, with Montreal — at 31 minutes — and Vancouver, at 30 minutes, following
Matt Gurney: Transit, what a waste of time
People aren’t staying off mass transit because they’re stubborn or hate the Earth. Even in Toronto’s nightmarish traffic, the Better Way is still worse.
Photos of the day
Swan walkin’ here! A swan holds up traffic on the M4 motorway, west of London, June 15, 2011. (Photo: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images)
