Why shouldn't we spend some money to pave a bike path that could be well used. When I rode on the bayshore pathway, there were parts of the path that had been partially washed out, leaving about 3 feet of 2-5 inch ruts. Elsewhere there were infrequent, but pretty much constant 1 inch ruts in hard packed dirt. Elsewhere they had filled the path with a softpacked pea-gravel. You shouldn't have to break out a mountainbike and deal with drastically changing road surfaces to commute to work.