Another great piece from Jalopnik.

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    1 year ago

    Why is the trail closed?

    We have a portion of a trail that closes for no reasonable purpose at like 5pm. We’ve been fighting to keep it open–lanes of car traffic don’t just close unless it goes through private property. Why should bike trails?

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      1 year ago

      Its an unlit winding trail along a steep drop off with pigs (and I do not mean cops - another part of the trail is directly on their station and I’ve never had any issue riding there at night: its lit, ironically by car dealerships, and not along a steep drop off; it also does have pigs out hunting at night though).

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        1 year ago

        Huh. Is there a reason a fence doesn’t work there? If pigs were wandering into a road, both the owner and the city would want to eliminate that conflict

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          Its a nature trail meant for well-off office-workers to go for recreation during the day, so they’re not going to build several miles of fencing for poorer people to commute at night. Pigs are primarily nocturnal, so they’re not an issue during the day.

          Also roads obstructing wildlife migration is already a problem. We shouldn’t be trying to expand that.