| Re: MASSholes - your tx $$ @ work exactly my point. they were gung ho about it for about 3 years, 2 of which were nothing but problems, and they gave us no alternative, no legal trails within 20 miles or so, also they shut down the windham depot which is about 10 minutes from my house and it gave us no choice. it got bad when almost everyone i knew went to court to either fight a ticket or a case, and like you said the landowners are the ones who put a stop to some of the disputes, due to they never called to file a trespass complaint so the trespass was on both parts and all charges were dropped.
the only real solution is to open up a state funded trail program that can facilitate many many many riders and establish tht as the stapl for a period of time say years, and then begin the enforcement of illegal trail riding. until then the enforcement is illegal and the cases unwarranted.
it just doesnt make sense to take an activity that many kids can participate in by saving there hard earned money and learning the value of the dollar, and keeping them from exploring activities with drugs and exccessiveness and they can just rip it all away and say, hey this is just as illegal as drugs and underage drinking, but you can hide drugs and underage drinking. |