This article in the Globe and Mail talks about the increasing popularity of skateboarding as well as how dangerous it can be to do it in the streets. A man riding a longboard on a Toronto street was killed by a taxi earlier this week.
Please be safe out there, wherever you skate!
He was a LONGBOARDER! Not a skateboarder. Longboarders assume they will be treated as a cyclist, have much less control than skateboarders, and (the majority of them) are generally quite stupid to begin with. Nobody can possibly respect what skateboarding is if they cannot even differentiate it from longboarding.