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No Bikes on Bill's Trail!
This is GREAT news! Thank you, Marin Conservation League, Connie
Berto, and many others who wrote comments opposing access for mountain bikes. I STILL don't understand why mountain bikers are incapable of walking.... Mike http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_12764361 State halts plan to allow bikes on Samuel P. Taylor trail Mark Prado Posted: 07/06/2009 05:38:11 PM PDT On Monday, Bhavani Kludt (left) and Keith Imamoto hike Bill's Trail in Samuel P. Taylor Park. (IJ photo/Frankie Frost) After an outcry from environmentalists and others, state parks officials have rescinded approval of a plan to allow mountain bikers on a popular four-mile trail through Samuel P. Taylor State Park. For the past three years, representatives of the Access4bikes - a Marin bicyclists' advocacy group - have talked with California State Parks officials about opening four trails in the county. In addition to Bill's Trail, officials have considered allowing bike access on the Easy Grade Trail and McKennas Gulch Fire Road on Mount Tamalpais and the Mount Burdell Trail in Olompali State Historical Park. Opening trails for bike use has been a hot-button topic for years in Marin as hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians compete for space on trails, in particular the slopes of Mt. Tam. In May, state parks officials filed paperwork declaring that an environmental review to allow bike access on Bill's Trail was not needed, effectively approving the plan. Under the plan, hikers would have access on all days, equestrians on even-numbered days and mountain bikers on odd-numbered days. Segments of logs were also to be placed on the trail, which would not affect hikers or equestrians but would serve to slow down bikers, according to the plan. The public then was given 35 days to respond. The Marin Conservation League argued an environmental review is necessary and challenged the legality of the state park's move. It noted, among other things, the trail runs along Devil's Gulch -- I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8 years fighting auto dependence and road construction.) Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of! http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande |
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No Bikes on Bill's Trail!
On Jul 7, 9:59*am, Mike Vandeman wrote:
This is GREAT news! Thank you, Marin Conservation League, Connie Berto, and many others who wrote comments opposing access for mountain bikes. I STILL don't understand why mountain bikers are incapable of walking.... Probably for the same reason you refuse to travel by sailboat instead of flying, you're a self-centered hypocrite whose convenience is more important than the planet. |
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