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Not that the Riverwalk is much use with the eastern section under construction, but the yellow jackets are back at it falsely claiming cyclists are required by law to walk their bikes. Saw it happen twice around 2PM yesterday on a sparsely populated section with plenty of room for peds and cyclists. 

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Reminds me of those days visiting "The Bean" at Millennium park :)

The Riverwalk was built with federal CMAQ funds in order to promote biking. Despite these signs, it is still a legal bike path. Now if it's packed, yes, walk your bike. But if no one's on it, security guards shouldn't be harassing cyclists using it as intended.

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2018/10/15/eyes-on-the-street-mixed-mes...

Then it's probably a problem of bad design/execution.

Unfortunately that's a problem with MUPS in general.

And if the City bans people from using their bike on it, they can also give back the federal funds used to build it. There is plenty of precedent for that. Again, I'm not saying that cyclists shouldn't walk their bikes when it crowded or unsafe to ride, but a 24/7 ban flies in the face of what was intended.

I think you're wrong about it being a ticket-eligible offense, since cycling is, in fact, legal on this stretch.

Sounds like a test case waiting to happen...

We'd have to do some more research on the contracts and those cases, but common law precedent rulings don't necessarily trump Federal law if there were other legally binding elements. So it may very well be the case that the City doesn't even have the option of just returning the funds.

Well, it is the Riverwalk.

I'd walk the bike. What's wrong with walking?

Again, nothing wrong with walking your bike when the Riverwalk is crowded and it is unsafe to ride. The Riverwalk is 1.3 miles long from end to end.

Why should one have to walk their bike more than a mile when it's empty and safe to ride?

"Why should one have to walk their bike more than a mile when it's empty and safe to ride?"

Agreed. If it is crowded, walk it. If it isn't, it is a 50/50.

I've walked it with my significant other... then there's the Divvy or other riders who ride it in the middle of a Saturday evening in the summer. I don't move to give them room. Let them figure it out. 

It's kind of funny, the Riverwalk was designed with sharp turns to slow cyclists. If only CDOT applied this line of thinking to our streets more often.

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