Yep, much easier for them to write you up and just the inconvenience alone isn't worth it. To fight it you have a court date, time off work to present your case. There are laws on the books that are antiquated or just there to hassle someone as a tool.

My only run in to date is riding on the sidewalk thru Bal Harbor, FL. Upscale area in Miami, lot of older folks as pedestrians. Anyway they were upgrading the crosswalks for the nearly dead and the roadways were funneled into a single lane. Cars were crowding the gutter and curb, so I couldn't get by them. So I rode on an empty stretch of sidewalk to get past the particular intersection they were working on. I got a verbal warning, took it for what it was. Police were there only to supervise traffic and make sure road workers were safe. You know, thinking back about it, the city didn't put those steel covers over the slab of asphalt they had taken out, the drop was a good foot deep or so. I think if someone gets hurt from that the city is liable ? Course it is A1A, a federal highway if I'm not mistaken. I know further into Miami, they have these 2" thick steel plates/covers over road construction like that.