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# Letter: Enforcing the ban on walking on the bike path
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/082307-story/
- Published: 2007-08-23T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:37:30.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ron Di Costanzo Santa Monica*

David Pisarra’s column about prohibiting walking on the bike path (“Walking shouldn’t be allowed on path,” Aug. 21) brings up a sore point with me. For years, I made an annual summer call to the Santa Monica Police asking why they refused to enforce the statute. I always got the same reply: “Manpower.”

Finally, about three years ago, I gave up riding the path because it was close to impossible to use it safely to get exercise — as opposed to trolling along at 5 mph, dodging pedestrians (always in groups of two or three), joggers, prams and Rollerbladers, hand-in-hand, swaying to the music across both lanes.

As for any member of the City Council riding a bike — on the path or elsewhere — I can only ask: “Are you havin’ a laugh?”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 23, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/082307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)