# Do NOT walk on the bike path.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-walk-on-the-bike-path/497694>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 26, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-walk-on-the-bike-path/497694 "2009-05-26T16:03:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-walk-on-the-bike-path/497694/101 "2009-06-07T07:29:43Z")

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> [@amarinth](#):
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> The other side - please bike in the bike path.
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> Not everyone, I know that sometimes bike paths are awful. They’re badly maintained, they’re on crumbling bits of shoulder, they’re full of glass, etc.

They’re also often badly designed, which is why cyclists often avoid them. If it’s safe to do so I will always use them, but I’m not going to use them if it puts me (or my bike) at greater danger.

Of course, the alternative should be cycling in the road, not on the footpath.

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**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-walk-on-the-bike-path/497694/102 "2009-06-08T13:36:31Z")

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> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#):
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> By the way, a biker in the bike lane was struck and killed in Minneapolis last week.

If you’re talking about the one downtown, yes, and that’s very close to where I live. I see the little memorial about twice a week.

Another thing about “On your left.” Even if people don’t understand what that means for whatever reason, the whole damn thing is largely irrelevant since joggers have on their goddamn iPods 80% of the time and can’t hear you yell anyway. If you’re going to be in everyone’s damn way, can you at least be alert? But I guess there may be some relationship between their obliviousness and their clogging up clearly marked bicyle paths. Another reason to get the extra shrill air horn!

The joggers were particularly annoying this Saturday because it was early in the morning and was raining. I thought the time and weather would help me avoid the dipshits, but alas, not.

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**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-walk-on-the-bike-path/497694/103 "2009-06-09T13:06:59Z")

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> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> There were also people in Segways. Yes, _Segways_.

Two weeks ago, I was on the bike path alongside the River Road (I can’t remember if I was on the Minneapolis or the St. Paul side).

Imagine my surprise when I saw a motorized scooter in the bike path, coming toward me, ridden by a guy with a toddler (without a helmet) sitting on his lap!

I gave him the finger.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-walk-on-the-bike-path/497694/104 "2009-06-09T15:30:00Z")

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I may complain about cars drifting or parking in bike lanes here, but after seeing this video of Paris bike lanes HOLY CRAP!

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gAethD1Io_Y/hqdefault.jpg "Angles morts") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAethD1Io_Y)

(sorry, its in French)

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