Lois raised the following concern was raised about my post yesterday: "My concern about all these new projects in the Park system is that they can always find capitol to keep expanding the system but they can't seem to find money to maintain it"
This is a great question to raise, and I've been raising it in regard to many Park projects, but it does not apply to the mountain bike situation. These trails will not require ongoing maintenance. In this case, remote parts of Wirth Park where there are already unofficial dirt trails will be designated by volunteers as legal routes. If this works out as we hope, it will bring people to remote parts of the park, which may mean fewer resources can be spent policing them. It's also hoped that these legal trails will encourage people to stop using the trails that cause damange to the park, a problem that to date has required signage and enforcement. This is an experiment; we don't know how it will work, but if it works as we hope it will be an example of using citizen volunteers and some common sense to improve access to our parks without additional cost. Thanks again to the commissioners and staff who have been innovative on this. R.T. Rybak REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
