I live on the East Bay Bike Path, there are people on it all hours of the night and that's just fine. We don't say people have to stop using roads after sundown, why should they have to stop using the bike path? This is a tragic death. But that bike path keeps riders and walkers on a protected path away from vehicles, for some people it provides a more direct route to where they're going. Our communities aren't 100% safe, nothing is, but the path is a lot safer than forcing riders to share the road late at night with distracted drivers.

Stop making this about the victim being where he "shouldn't" have been. If it was a health issue, then him riding on the side of the road would have been just as dangerous. If there was something more malicious at play here, then the only person responsible, is the person involved.

EP police drive up and down the bike bath randomly at night, the homeless guy who lived on my section was forced to move, even though he wasn't hurting anyone by living in the woods. The bike path at night is just as safe if not safer than the roads.