A Calgary woman is furious over what she says is a cash grab by the city after she was issued a ticket for riding through a pathway construction zone.
Rose Warnock was riding along a pathway on Memorial Drive just before 7:00 a.m. Thursday, when she and several other cyclists were handed fines for not walking their bikes through a construction zone.
Warnock admits that she didn't see the signs and says if she had she would have dismounted.
She says she was surprised when she was given the $100 fine without any warning.
Warnock says several other cyclists were also fined and she feels the tickets were simply a cash grab because there were no construction workers out or even pedestrians at that time of day.
"I actually asked them if they didn't have better things to tend to. I was very upset," said Warnock.
Calgary bylaw officials say enough is enough
"We have been doing a lot of education all summer. A lot of presence out there with warnings but it's finally come to a point where you, do at some point, have to draw the line and write the ticket," said Bill Bruce, City of Calgary Bylaw Services.
Warnock says she is now considering cycling on the road to avoid the pathway altogether.
She is also planning to fight the ticket and will go to court in November.
