2 cyclists pulled over by police on Cedar River Trail.

[Eden]

I have to agree with X - it was an overreaction and 10mph is a bit ridiculously slow and renders the trail useless to commuters, who will now be forced out onto a busy highway. Can you imagine if every time a cyclist or a pedestrian was hit and killed on the road if the city dropped the speed limit on that road to 10 mph.... like that would ever happen

This was a pretty freak accident. It probably was not due to speed, but as X said more to communication and the fact that the woman was a fairly fragile elder. The cyclist was an older man too and was also hospitalized with a head injury, so this was not a case of some racer boy running down an old lady.... It is tragic that she died. I would not want to downplay that at all, but I also think that its been misconstrued as some crazy reckless cyclist blasting down the trail and from all accounts that was just not the case. Heck, he may have not even been going faster than 10 at the time, as the trail was crowded... It wasn't the direct impact with the cyclist that caused the injury - it was the fall to the ground and even a small bump could have caused that.

Yes - in areas of congestion it makes complete sense to slow down - even under 10 mph if need be, but to limit the whole trail to 10 is a bit ridiculous.