Not open for business

If your city leaders are adding paths in the woods that are only “open” from dawn to dusk, they have just spent thousands of tax dollars on a purely recreational amenity that cannot be considered part of your city’s transportation network.

Case in point: it is currently dark when bike commuters and children-on-bikes go to work and school, and it is dark when the workers return home. What’s needed — lighting, security, and other enhancements to make these paths usable by all, at all times, or (my preference) protected access-for-all on the roads that people actually use to get places.