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Joey Schwartz

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Cyclist and general purpose noodnik.

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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Following the wishes of Samuel Wilketts' family, his Ghost Bike memorial ride with be in late September, during what would have been his 29th birthday. www.tumblr.com/respectcycli...
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Ghost Bike Memorial Ride for Samuel Wilketts · 20 September 2025 at 12:30 p.m, Matt Cohen Park, Toronto. On Thursday, 31 July 2025, 28-year-old Samuel Willetts succumbed to his i…
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Samuel Willetts was identified in today's Toronto Star as the city's first cycling fatality. The 28-year-old worked in Toronto's Film & TV industry as a gaffer and cinematographer. A Ghost Bike ride is being planned with his family. Date of ride is TBA. archive.ph/2025.08.09-1...
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition traffic count in the downtown core 2025-06-11.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Bike to work day at Toronto City Hall.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Bell Fibe is down in the greater Toronto area, and much of the rest of Canada. This is as big as the July 2022 Rogers Blackout, except Bell Cellular still works.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Parkside Road’s safety speed camera was attacked again! 4th one in about a year. I hope the fifth camera has better defences.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It seems to be true. It looks like PeePee has squandered one of the biggest polling leads in modern times.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The Eglinton LRT will now open in September… 2025! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA! www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
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THESTAR.COM // Eglinton Crosstown LRT finally has an opening date, according to sources
Though it may be closer to completion than ever, this isn’t the first time the beleaguered LRT line was slated to open.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The Bloor Street Bike Lane extension west was well into planning five years ago, about two months before the COVID lockdowns. The lockdowns actually speeded up the process, somewhat. Today, there's some pushback, but generally are well used and accepted by the community.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today, IRONMAN sold FulGaz, its virtual cycling app, to its chief competitor, ROUVY. IRONMAN laid off all the staff. FulGaz offered the best platform for almost realistic cycling, using videos shot in 4K UHDV on bicycles. You could virtually tour the world from within this platform. RIP FulGaz.
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Ironman Sells FulGaz to Rouvy, and Plenty More
In a move that will probably surprise nobody within the industry, Ironman has decided that owning an indoor cycling platform …
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Well, if you were in Grade 13 in September 1985, and enrolled in the Toronto District School Board, your personal information was breached. That means this breach affects people as old as 59. www.tdsb.on.ca/home/ctl/Det...
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Letter to Parents, Guardians and Caregivers re: Update on PowerSchool Cyber Incident - Data Breach Notice
Further to the information shared on January 8, 2025, we are writing with an update on the cyber incident involving PowerSchool’s Student Information System – the application used by TDSB and many school boards across North America to store certain student information.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
50 years later, Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' remains the standard by which all albums are measured forward.com/culture/musi...
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50 years later, Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' remains the standard by which all albums are measured
50 years ago, in 1975, Bob Dylan's classic album 'Blood on the Tracks' introduced a whole new approach to songwriting.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
We are about two days away from Elon Musk having significant influence over the U.S. government when his beliefs seem to veer towards extreme right-wing policies and the politics of division, the _Toronto Star_ reports today.
Grey scale image of a newspaper page, pictured is a Caucasian male, Elon Musk, smiling in medium close up.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Watch DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE (2016) for free on the Criterion Channel! bit.ly/4g4yHPh
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David Lynch: The Art Life - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm • 2016 • United States, Denmark A rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most enigmatic visionaries, DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE of...
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The victim impact statement of the daughter of the couple killed on Parkside Dr., in THEIR CAR, because of a careless speeding driver. Totally preventable, but yet people are opposing simple measures as photo radar to reduce speeds. Only a road diet will fix this. globalnews.ca/news/1096202...
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GLOBALNEWS.CA // Daughter of couple killed by dangerous driver says crash ‘haunts me every day’ | Globalnews.ca
Ashley Avila fought through tears Thursday as she gave a victim impact statement in the sentencing of the man guilty of driving dangerously in a crash that killed her parents.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
As expected, the FAA has ordered a mishap investigation for yesterday’s Starship launch. As usual, the company that had the mishap will lead the investigation, in this case, SpaceX. Since they seem to know the likely cause of the RUD, and how to fix it, this maybe a quick investigation.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
SpaceX successfully launched the IFT-7 mission today. A few minutes later, they successfully captured Booster no. 14. However, ship 33 disintegrated over the Caribbean Sea at engine cut-off. Image credit: Everyday Astronaut.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Blue Origin's commentator, the same annoying person who commentates on the New Shepard flights, was terrible, especially compared to commentators on SpaceX launches or even NASA PAO. Another gripe, they used imperial units for speed & altitude, when clearly, the flight controllers were using Metric.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Congratulations Blue Origin on the successful maiden flight of their New Glenn orbital rocket. It adds another provider for the U.S. launch market. Image credit: Spaceflight Now/Blue Origin
Large rocket surround by launch tower and lightning deflection towers is consumed in a bright orange glow with exhaust smoke clouds in the background from the rocket's seven BE-4 rocket engines.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I want the federal election in October because it is looking more likely that we'll have a provincial election in March or April. Elections Canada and Elections Ontario mostly use the same workers. We'll need a break between elections.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This Guardian article goes into the growing rift between traditional cyclists that use "acoustic" bikes versus people that rent e-bikes from Lime in London. But here in T.O., the issue is more a fight between food couriers on E-bikes and the traditional cyclists. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Please don’t hit me!’ The battle between ebikers and other cyclists
Ebike rentals are thought to have reduced car use – but caused consternation among some pedestrians and other road users. How can everyone get along?
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
More proof that the Gig economy is _The Hunger Games_ made real. Today's _Toronto Star_ investigative report shows that Uber Eats makes food couriers virtually indentured slaves. The City of Toronto can fix this by making them employees with guaranteed wages. www.thestar.com/business/i-w...
Front Page of the Toronto Saturday Star showing a monochrome image of Food Couriers and their bicycles waiting for an order.Article with a picture of food couriers on their bikes.Final page in the story, showing a courier looking at their smartphone waiting for orders.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My thoughts are with Michael Longfield, executive director of Cycle Toronto. Rode with him on Sunday for the Cycling Good Cheer ride.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We cycled most of Toronto’s Bloor Bike Lanes and down Yonge Street for the annual Good cheer Ride today.
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Ashley @ashleyquan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Did some visualizing StatsCan's data around mode of transportation for commuting, because cyclists being only 1.9% of commuters in a city as big & diverse as Toronto is way too simplistic. www.datawrapper.de/_/xMPpK/
Map of StatsCan data around cycle commuting mode share by census tract
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ghost Bike ride THU, 21 NOV '24. Meet at 5:00 p.m., depart 5:30 p.m. at Matt Cohen Park (Bloor & Spadina). This is a ride for the teenaged cyclist that died last week in Ajax. It is also a ride for all 18 cyclists killed this year in southern Ontario.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Well, it looks like we will get a warm welcome tonight at the Legislature.🤣 x.com/thebikinglaw...
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ghost Bike ride THU, 21 NOV '24. Meet at 5:00 p.m., depart 5:30 p.m. at Matt Cohen Park (Bloor & Spadina). This is a ride for the teenaged cyclist that died last week in Ajax. It is also a ride for all 18 cyclists killed this year in southern Ontario.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Picking up old and weathered Ghost Bikes that were part of an arts installation at the Brickworks in the Don Valley. Some will be refurbished.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Ford and Sarkaria's anti-bike lane Bill 212 will go into it's final reading on Thurs. Nov. 21. We intend to send them a strong message that day. Save the date. Stay tuned. @RespectTO @FFSafeStreets @CycleToronto #youneverridealone by @tomflood1
High contrast black and white image of a ghost bike with text announcing an action. Logos of four cycling advocacy groups are listed.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Protesting Bill 212 About 400 people showed up at Christie Pits to protest the latest foolish idea from Doug Ford. Ripping out bike lanes won't fix congestion, it'll make it worse. But why let the facts impede a good wedge issue for an election? medium.com/@joeyschwart...
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Protest to Save Bike Lanes
A sunny Saturday afternoon, and a new group, Fight For Bikes, organizes a mass bike ride to save our bike lanes in Ontario. About 400…
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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
At long last, I got around to creating a starter pack to help Toronto area cyclists and their friends find (and follow) each other. If there's someone you feel I should add, please let me know! #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero go.bsky.app/NiMuHSF
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Friends and Families for Safe Streets @ffsafestreets.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
TOMORROW!!!! Join this student-led protest to save our bike lanes on Saturday Nov 9th at 2:00 p.m. in Christie Pits Park. Students are more likely to rely on active transportation as inexpensive, convenient transportation. They deserve to be safe just as much as any motorist. www.fightforbikes.org
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
A 13-year-old teenaged female cyclist succumbed to her injuries tonight. A driver hit her on a crosswalk in Ajax this morning. Condolences go out to her family & Friends. Ghost Bike Memorial ride details TBA at a later date. #nocyclistridesalone fkfb.sizone.org?r=https://ww...
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CP24.COM // 13-year-old cyclist dies after being struck by vehicle in Ajax
A 13-year-old cyclist has died in hospital after being struck by a vehicle in Ajax on Thursday morning, police say.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists hosted a Ghost Bike memorial ride for Brian Armstrong today. He was a member of many diverse communities and they came out today to pay tribute to him. I want to thank everyone that came out and our guest speakers.
A white bicycle, adorned with with multiple coloured flowers and a lamenated piece of paper that contains a Toronto Star memorial of Brian Armstrong, including his picture.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Brian Armstrong is being remembered in a new article in the Toronto Star. A Ghost Bike memorial ride will be near the end of this month. Details TBA. www.thestar.com/news/gta/def...
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‘Definitely a superhero’: This Toronto cyclist helped thousands of injured birds soar
Brian Armstrong was a dedicated FLAP Canada volunteer, known for his tireless commitment each spring and fall during migration season.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
GCAT and ARC are organizing a Ghost Bike Memorial ride for Susan Bard. She died in the hospital on 9 September from her injuries sustained in a collision while cycling. We'll meet at Guelph's City Hall details in the link. www.facebook.com/share/p/87Zo...
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
The news of the 7th cycling death this year only came to light this week. Brian Armstrong died in a bicycle crash on 29 AUG '24. A 72-year-old female rider died from injuries in a bike/car crash on 9 SEP '24. Ghost Bike Rides TBA. #neverridealone tmblr.co/ZQ2_8dgGd6H-...
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Here's my article on Saturday's Ghost Bike memorial ride for Navjot Kaur in Etobicoke. medium.com/@joeyschwart...
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Ghost Bike Ride For Navjot
On Saturday, 7 September 2024, we celebrated the life of Navjot Kaur. This young woman, a wife and college student came to Canada to find a…
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Thanks to Catherine McDonald's sleuthing, we now know identity of the cyclist killed in late August in Etobicoke. Navjot Kaur was a married 26-year-old college student. She was the sixth cycling death of the year in Toronto, the worst in this century. globalnews.ca/news/1073788...
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Husband of cyclist killed on Toronto road speaks out: ‘I’m incomplete without her’ - Toronto | Globalnews.ca
The husband of Toronto's latest cyclist fatality says he is broken without his wife, who was in her second year studying in the city.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
A female cyclist was hit by a motorist on 24 AUG 2024 in Etobicoke. She succumbed to her injuries today. She was the 6th cycling death in the City of Toronto, 9th in the GTHA, and 13th in south western Ontario. Ghost Bike Memorial ride TBA. www.tps.ca/media-centre...
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Fatal #30/2024, Burnhamthorpe Road and Kipling Avenue area
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Another selfish drunk driver, impatient, kills two cyclists as he illegally passed another motor vehicle on the right. It turns out, those two cyclists were NHL players, Johnny & Matthew Gaudreau. Today was supposed to be their sister's wedding. RIP. www.dispatch.com/story/sports...
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Blue Jackets' Johnny Gaudreau and brother killed in NJ crash involving suspected drunk driver
Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, were killed by a suspected drunk driver while bicycling Thursday night in Oldmans Township, New Jersey.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
If Paris can do it, Toronto can too. It just needs the political will to make safe bicycle infrastructure a priority across the city. fkfb.sizone.org?r=https://ww...
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NYTIMES.COM // Parisians Are Choosing Bikes Over Cars. Will New Yorkers Do That, Too?
The transformation of cycling access in Paris over the past few years may have lessons for New York and its car-clogged streets.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
I stand with Fred! As a Jew, as a former CUPE member, and someone that went to school with Fred Hahn, he is not an antisemite. He is an anti-Zionist, but so am I. That doesn't mean he is anti-Jew. He's pro-justice for Palestinians. #FredHahn
Labour leader Fred Han, image is a close up, showing him in a head shoulder shot. He is a Caucasian, with think white hair and horn-rimmed glass speaking into microphones at a media event.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Replacing a Ghost Bike Memorial. After seven years, Xavier Morgan's Ghost Bike on Lake Shore BLVD W had seen better days. We replaced it today. www.facebook.com/share/p/6czb...
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# **Replacing a Ghost Bike Memorial** ## **Xavier Morgan’s Bike Deteriorated Badly After Seven Years on Lake Shore Blvd West** A day after the seventh anniversary that Willam Scott Morgan’s funeral.....
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
Coverage of Wed. Ghost Bike Ride for an unknown female cyclist. She was only 24-years-old. An absolutely unnecessary death, and it happened in protected bike lanes b/c an illegal garbage bin was in the way. May her memory be a blessing to her family and friends. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
A driver of a dump truck hit and killed another cyclist this morning on Bloor Street in the Yorkville neighbourhood. ARC wishes to send its condolences to the female cyclist’s family. ARC will announce a Ghost Bike Memorial ride at a later time.
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Cyclist dead after being struck by dump truck in downtown Toronto: police
A cyclist is dead after being struck by a dump truck in downtown Toronto on Thursday morning, police say.
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
A 16-year-old male cyclist died in St. Catharines, Ontario yesterday evening. Collision between him and female driving an SUV. RIP. Since this is out of ARC's territory, we won't be placing a #ghostbike there. #cyclingdeath
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16-year-old boy killed after bike and SUV collide in St. Catharines
Roads in area closed for eight hours for collision investigation
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
#ghostbike Memorial Ride for an unknown male in Oakville, killed on Monday, 13 May 2024. Ride is this Victoria Day Monday, at the Oakville GO Station. Arrive at 1:00 p.m., depart 1:30 p.m. www.tumblr.com/respectcycli...
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Ghost Bike Memorial Ride in Oakville
Cyclist Killed on Monday, 13 May 2024 Halton Regional Police found a male cyclist on the side of the road on Eighth Line, south of Upper Middle Road, on Monday evening. EMS rushed him to a hospital…
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Joey Schwartz @joeys4b.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Cycling Death In Oakville Details are limited, there's been yet another cycling death in the GTA. Police are reporting that the cyclist struck on 8th Line died. An ARC @RespectTO Ghost Bike Memorial Ride will be arranged at a later date. Details TBA. experience.arcgis.com/.../5372f09e...
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