Riverwalk Security Guards Back At It

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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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on April 3, 2019 at 7:55am

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

Permalink Reply by Tooscrapps on April 4, 2019 at 12:38am

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...

Permalink Reply by mike w. on April 4, 2019 at 1:05am

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

Unfortunately that's a problem with MUPS in general.

Permalink Reply by Tooscrapps on April 4, 2019 at 3:12am

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.

Permalink Reply by mike w. on April 4, 2019 at 5:47am

Sounds like a test case waiting to happen...

Permalink Reply by Carter O'Brien on April 4, 2019 at 6:17am

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.

Permalink Reply by mike w. on April 3, 2019 at 12:44pm

Well, it is the Riverwalk.

Permalink Reply by Ernesto Lube on April 4, 2019 at 3:24am

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

Permalink Reply by Tooscrapps on April 4, 2019 at 3:32am

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?

Permalink Reply by Ernesto Lube on April 4, 2019 at 3:36am

"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. 

Permalink Reply by Tooscrapps on April 4, 2019 at 3:51am

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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