Simple, a city traffic cop on the beat can give you jaywalking ticket, cause
that his job as he saw you breaking the law. No cop patrols the bike path,
unless someone reports some unusual activity, plus the bike paths typically
run thru multiple cities. If I was running a city police department, I
wouldn't waste my recourses on patrolling the bike path to give tickets to
joggers or pedestrian. As I said earlier law enforcement is not really good
solution, however public education is cheaper and works.

Haroon

-----Original Message-----
From: bikepaths@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bikepaths@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Dan Mick
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 5:59 PM
To: bikepaths@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [bikepaths] Re: bike path laws

Haroon Said wrote:
> The reality is bike paths are used by joggers, walkers and homeless. The
> police are not going to enforce anything because it doesn't make sense to
> ticket a person walking.

I don't understand why not, and I've certainly been ticketed for jaywalking
(despite the complete safety of it, unlike occupying space on a bike path).


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