Originally Posted by skanking biker

Perhaps this is also part of the problem. Here, in madison, a lot of people come to the city to use its extensive bike paths/trails. The city publishes a number of different bike maps but i have yet to see one that differentiates between a bike path and a MUT. From looking at some maps, many paths are color coded so as to give a new cyclist (or out of town tourist) the impression that the path is devoted exclusivly to bicycle use. --now granted there are signs on most MUTs---but those are proabably hard to read when you are cruising at 25 mph.