If you bike on a state trail (in our area, Capital City.
Badger State, Military Ridge, Glacial Drumlin) between the hours of
11 pm and 6 am, you become a de facto criminal, subject to a $175
fine that can be imposed at whim by the DNR. Bet you didn't know
this. Even some people in DNR don't either. It is a carry-over from
the days when trails were considered nothing more than "a ride in the
park" Since then our trails have become important transportation
corridors, allowing people to, for example, commute to and from work.
We are even talking about creating a trails system for bikes
similar to the Interstate for cars. Numbered routes, easy to follow.
Times have changed, but DNR has not,
The Wisconsin Nonmotorized Recreation and Transportation
Trails Council, the Bike Fed, and the Friends of Badger State Trail
(where an "illegal" night-time event was recently held) are all on
record supporting repeal of this archaic concept of bicycling.
Read more:
http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2013/08/23/notice-all-state-trails-are-closed-as-of-11pm-tonight/
Take action. Call, email or write your legislators. We are
going to change this.
"The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind." -- American Author
William Saroyan, introduction to Noiseless Tenor, 1982.
Bill Hauda
Bicycling Representative & Funding Committee Chair
Wisconsin Nonmotorized Recreation and Transportation Trails Council
14 Northlight Way
Fitchburg, WI 53711
608-574-4471
_______________________________________________
Bikies mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
