Car Show on Bike Path

[Deborajen]

We don't know for sure that they had a permit at all. Whether or not they should have been allowed to park on the bike path, permit or no permit, is the big issue. Additionally, if they were allowed to park cars on the bike path, should they have been required to post signs, etc., notifying any oncoming cyclists, runners, etc.?

When we went back to take the pictures, we thought it was interesting that there were quite a few cyclists checking out the car show. They weren't being chased off or scolded by a snotty emcee, but DH and I agreed that there could have been some mutual benefit to some better planning. Cyclists and runners could have been safer with some advance warning of the cars being on the path, and the charity benefited from the bike path traffic, and some kind requests to the cyclists to dismount bikes when in the car show area would have made the car owners happy as well.

It just doesn't seem like it should be so difficult to figure out where to go to ask for some resolution to this. Between State Laws, City Parks and Recreation rules and plans, permits and who has them and what they cover, etc. - why does "cars, being motorized vehicles, don't belong on bike paths, which are supposed to be safe havens for bikes and pedestrians" - get lost?