The Most Dangerous Ride on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Isn't a Ride...

The other day I saw a friend with two cut knees after falling off her bicycle. I didn't even have to ask where it happened.

It was on Beach Street before the Boardwalk area. But it seems like falling off a bike on those tracks is a Santa Cruz ritual, one of those, you know you are from Santa Cruz when...

I fell, badly, but can hardly blame anyone but myself for that one. I was up on the area that isn't the bike path, but it was my first time riding there and missed the signs directing me to stay on the street. I hit the track and did a double somersault into the brush. 

Following the tracks and the path isn't necessarily much safer. There are dug out sections of track on Beach Street and the 10-foot-wide bike path veers to the left at one point into two-way traffic that is a head-on waiting to happen.

Have you fallen on the tracks? Isn't it time someone took responsibility for fixing them up? 
 
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Here are some Facebook comments: 

• Simone Cox I wiped out there on my bike and got really banged up. Wasn't even going fast at all.Like · Reply · 10 hours ago
• Kirsten Whitten Attlesey Yep!Like · Reply · 11 hours ago via mobile
• Douglass Weymouth You just go across at a right angle to the tracks.Like · Reply · 1 · 11 hours ago
• Melanie Premo Did that in the summer of '84. My apologies to the children who overheard my profane exclamation (although the nearby SCPD patrol merely chuckled). Embarrassing.Like · Reply · 18 minutes ago
• Mark Nockleby The city did re-arrange the paint a couple of years ago after some one successfully sued them.Like · Reply · 11 hours ago
• Clara E Minor LOL...did that!Like · Reply · 11 hours ago
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