It only seems reasonable to me if it’s something specific to the park in question. If this park has had multiple incidents of people going too fast down a particular hill and hitting people the rule makes sense.
Pick a park, any park, in the entire country of Canada and show me where the cyclist collision/injury/death rate is higher than the motorist rate.
Rules like this are designed to be obnoxious to cyclists. Nobody cares about human life. If they cared, they'd adopt road designs and crosswalks and pedestrian walkways and all the rest which are proven to reduce accidents. Instead, we just see arbitrary addendums thrown into the code in order to paper over the fact that these spaces are hostile to cyclists, to homeless people, really - to anyone who wants to use the park as more than a bullet point on a Real Estate sales flier.
I'm only accepting this as a serious problem if you're also required to put your car in neutral and walk it down the hill as well.
It only seems reasonable to me if it’s something specific to the park in question. If this park has had multiple incidents of people going too fast down a particular hill and hitting people the rule makes sense.
Pick a park, any park, in the entire country of Canada and show me where the cyclist collision/injury/death rate is higher than the motorist rate.
Rules like this are designed to be obnoxious to cyclists. Nobody cares about human life. If they cared, they'd adopt road designs and crosswalks and pedestrian walkways and all the rest which are proven to reduce accidents. Instead, we just see arbitrary addendums thrown into the code in order to paper over the fact that these spaces are hostile to cyclists, to homeless people, really - to anyone who wants to use the park as more than a bullet point on a Real Estate sales flier.