I would love to see increased enforcement for all forms of travel, because for the most part, the only enforcement of bad cyclist behaviours are fish-in-barrel blitzes at places like the four-way stop at Beverley and Baldwin. I see lots of speed traps in the suburbs, but never in the central city, where enforcement against drivers are also mostly blitzes and RIDE checks. The OPP do a lot of random seatbelt, cellphone and safety visual checks, mostly on on-ramps to 400-series highways, I'd like to see more random, unpublicized spotchecks to enforce everybody's behaviour, but want to focus on the bigger things like red lights (my number one problem with bad cyclists), streetcar doors (Doug Ford has a problem with these), illegal turns (mostly motorists in this case) than half-assed silly crackdowns on rolling stops at 4 ways. As long as either cars or cyclists yield and stop to cede right-of-way at 4-ways, I don't have a big problem with a dead slow "rolling stop" (but certainly not a blow-through) for either type of vehicle.
My bike is already registered with the police as a theft-prevention measure - that's a free service, available online, and they mail you out a confirmation letter and sticker. I have a full G licence and do drive occasionally. I'm licenced and registered, so no matter what, it won't be a problem for me. And how would this be enforced? I could just see checkpoints at Marie Curtis Park on the waterfront trail for blocking cyclists from entering from Mississauga without paying the Ford tax. And how much easier would it be to identify a cyclist colliding with a pedestrian by a tiny plate or medallion, if there is actually one affixed? Those few hit-and-run cyclists have been caught - the one who killed the pedestrian on Finch (who stayed on scene) was identified, charged and likely facing civil suits.
Again, only the Sun is pushing this issue. No mention elsewhere. It's not going to happen.
