[pct-l] Bikers on the PCT

[Edward Anderson]

What is needed is called ENFORCEMENT - including appropriate penaltys for 
violations to get the message across.  Obviously more is needed than just a sign 
of a bycycle (or motorcycle) with a diagonal red slash. What is needed is an 
additional sign indicating that there will be FINES for violations.  The bikers 
are well aware that they don't belong on the PCT.  Start with a written citation 
with just a warning on the first offence.  After that the consequences for 
violations should become greater - substantial fines and possibly impounding the 
illegal wheeled vehicle. It should cost them money to get it back.

How to do this?  In America today JOBS are needed.  I say hire enforcement 
Rangers.  Due to cutbacks there are many Rangers now out of work. The FINES 
could be used to pay thier saleries.

I have met Medicare Pastor on several occasions.  Most recently in Vasquez Park 
in Agua Dulce where I live.  She is a very special person.

MendoRider



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From: "lucymann at comcast.net" <lucymann at comcast.net>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 9:32:03 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Bikers on the PCT




I read an interesting (and depressing) entry in Medicare Pastor's Trail Journal 
today and wanted to comment on it here. What, if anything, can be done about the 
increasing violations of bikers on the PCT? I personally ran into a biker on the 
PCT on Saturday north of Stampede Pass who claimed he didn't know he was on the 
PCT and apparently was blind because there were at least a dozen PCT signs. 
Medicare Pastor ran into many more. It makes one feel so impotent to see the 
flagrant violations and not be able to do anything about it. Do any of you have 
any recommendations? She took pictures as they laughed and taunted her. I have 
decided to take pictures and post them on the Washington Trails Association's 
trip report site to at least publicize the problem but I really don't know what 
good it will do. 




http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=332018 



Lucy Mann 
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