[SDCBC] Joggers in the Bike Lane - WTF

[John Eldon]

Thought experiment #2: A bicyclist is illegally, but cautiously, slowly, and courteously, using a sidewalk. He/she and a nearby pedestrian are both killed when an errant motor vehicle jumps a curb. Is the motorist somehow less responsible for the cyclist's death than for the pedestrian's?

"A.A. Abulifia" <abulifia1 at cox.net> wrote: CVC �21966 states in pertinant part: 

No pedestrian shall proceed along a bicycle path or lane where there is an adjacent adequate pedestrian facility.

There are sidewalks on both sides of the Bake Parkway.   According the newspaper item, clearly, the ped was in the wrong.   She was running in the bike lane when she should have been on the adjacent sidewalk.  Regardless of whether or not she preferred the "soft" macadam.  Regardless of how beneficial joggers believe macadam to be, the ped in this story was comparatively negligent.   End of story.

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