Stairs removed for safety reasons

Scona road has been shut down. So far, I’ve been enjoying this.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like Scona road. It is my route of choice if I am returning from downtown. But since it has been closed for construction, there is a lot less traffic on Saskatchewan drive. It is so easy to cross it now when I’m out for a run.
If I want to run that route though, I figured I could take the secret path down to the running trails. Then there is nothing stopping me from enjoying the fully operational river valley. I wanted to do that today. With the fact that I was sleeping most of the day, I wanted to cap off my total laziness with a 20km run. I would go down to the river valley and then head west. But I had a lot of trouble finding the secret path today, so I had to use a street instead. It removed a bit of distance, so I had to make it up later.
But, I would take the secret path back. It is impossible to miss from below. So, after 18km, I went up the muddy trail and started climbing the stairs back to Saskatchewan drive. Wait a minute. Where are those stairs.
They were gone. All that remained were some piles to prove that they had been there. So, with some death defying stunts, I clambered over the railing and back up to Saskatchewan drive, next to a sign I had missed earlier. “Stairs removed for safety reasons.”
What safety reasons?! I nearly got myself killed because you decided to remove them! I certainly didn’t feel safer.
Who authorized the removal of a running trail in Edmonton? That’s a hanging offence!