No I am suggesting that Jarvis street has smaller lanes then any other street, because there are 5 lanes instead of 4 its impossible for you to move around a cyclist without hitting the car in the next lane, most other streets you have enough room but Jarvis st definately doesnt!

You obviously dont drive up that street otherwise you would know this. When its busy you cant go around the cyclist with jeopardizing going into the other lane. Go one street over Sherbourne has a great bike line which i would love to see on more streets, i bike just as much as i drive too!

Policy is that if a car hits a cyclist, anywhere, the driver is always in the wrong unless the cyclist is in an intersection against the signal, or a fail to stop at a stop sign. The reporter is at fault because he didn't give minimum safe distance. If bikes were to be banned on Jarvis, then in fairness Sherbourne should be closed to automobile traffic, and I'm sure that's not gonna happen.

None of you guys drive on Jarvis St., doesnt anyone know what i mean, all other streets you can drive safely around cyclists, except for Jarvis, if you are in the far right lane and there is a cyclists and heavy traffic you cannot go around him at all without going into the other lane, i really wish they left it the way it was before with the bike lanes, and the new bike lanes on Sherbourne actually look like they are part of the sidewalk with a lil incline? Never seen them this way

I have driven on Jarvis many times, I know exactly what you mean. You still need to give minimum safe distance to bikes, and cyclists have as much as a right to the street as drivers.

Guess you dont understand...Jarvis St is unique and has smaller lanes then any other street in the City

If a driver cannot safely pass a cyclist in the same lane, it's their responsibility to CHANGE LANES and pass with a SAFE AMOUNT OF SPACE, just as they would any other vehicle. I suggest reading the Highway Traffic Act.

YOU HIT SOMEBODY WITH YOUR CAR AND YOU ARE BLAMING THE VICTIM.

Ryan: I submit to you that the Don Valley is a beautiful stretch of high-speed road, and is unique in that cyclists are not allowed on it at all. Perhaps this is a better alternative for you.

Aye, the driver's handbook even mentions that when driving you can pass cyclists if there is space, but if there isn't you are to treat them like another vehicle in the lane and pass properly. Cyclists being full vehicles shouldn't be the weird exception on one street, the exception is you can treat a bike as smaller than a full lane vehicle on a wide street.

Hey guess what? If you're behind a cyclist in a narrow lane and you need to pass them, flip on your signal, switch lanes, and then pass them. Or are you too lazy to figure out where you signal switch is? Or y'know, you could have said something when Toronto decided to rip out the Jarvis bike lane to put in some parking spots. Then you wouldn't even have the issue of being stuck behind a cyclist to begin with. Just sayin'

http://thestar.blogs.com/thefixer/2013/06/jarvis-st-is-no-place-forbikes-reader-says-heres-another-reason-why-cyclists-should-just-get-out-of-the-way-when-you.html