I’ve been hearing reports from bikers and friends that $100 fines are being handed out at the Loch Raven watershed. From what I’ve been able to read from a couple other sites, Baltimorespokes.org and MORE. These fines appear to be related to people that are biking on the fire roads and surrounding trails. MORE, from what I’ve heard from sources, has been playing a part in helping keep these fire roads and trails clear.
From what I can tell from Loch Raven’s website it sounds like a perfect place to go hike and fish. So why are they cracking down on Mountain Biking? From what I can tell from their current plan it looks as though the members of MORE and the general community are doing more work than the officials.
I would think that they would want to encourage people to be out on the trails riding. Not only does this keep an interest in Loch Raven, it also adds additional set of eyes and ears to a very large place that could be awfully expensive to police and patrol.
Maybe it’s time they revise the laws from 1998 as to how and how you can access the Loch Raven watershed?
Ultimately lets hope that with Sheila Dixon being charged with her felony that we won’t see a loss in support for bicyclists in Maryland. It would suck to see Baltimore not take advantage of its perfect layout for alternative transportation like bicycling.
April 1st, 2010 on 8:30 am
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