Biidaasige Bike Cycle vs Walking Paths
I was at the park today, and noticed some relatively new signage about “Please walk your bike”. (I was there quickly last week and didn’t notice them, but to be fair I was going to a very specific point rather than exploring. The signs look crisp, no weathering at all, not even dusty).
To me, based on the various postings, these signs indicated not to ride your bike on the limestone trails. Makes sense, I comply. In one location there is a “Please walk your bike” sign on the righthand side about 5m before a fork in the path, asphalt continues to the left and limestone to the right. I register this as being for the limestone as it is the only fence post on the righthand side to affix the sign. at the fork point there is a post roughly the middle (albeit, slightly close to the asphalt side) that also as a “please walk your bike sign”. Again, I attribute this to the limestone trial although it could be interpreted as being for the asphalt. We are going very slow, maybe 10km/hr, and a walker yells at us that there is a sign “to walk your bikes you assholes”. He’s angry, I don’t engage as he doesn’t seem like a person to discuss the placement or logic of signage with. We continue and at least 5 cyclist ride past us going the other way. I never see a “please walk your bike“ on this portion of asphalt trail again despite other junctions.
To give this a bit of humour, we had the exact opposite encounter minutes later we are riding along the asphalt path with the bike markers painted on them. Some dog walkers asked us if they were on a bike path. I said to the best of my knowledge it was multi-use. Although, as we continued we only ever saw bikes and no walkers. That then made me wonder, are the park paths divided into pedestrian and cyclist only paths?
Does anyone know the rules? Is my logic incorrect about limestone vs paved? I couldn’t find a trail map on the park website and the only rules for bikes are to be courteous and lock up only at bike racks.