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officials have rescinded approval of a plan to allow mountain bikers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!

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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.