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.
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.