I've had some very close calls on that trail with some of the city trucks as well. Some of them drive on the trail at high speed, and worse, don't yield to trail users. I've had to ride off the trail into the grass to avoid these guys.
In the winter, you can see how many 4-wheeled vehicles drive on the trail every morning by the tracks in the snow.
This morning, I noticed that the trail is starting to sag due to the weight of the vehicles. There's a nice high spot down the center of the trail, and two sagging regions right where the truck tires ride.
The gates really need to be locked, before the trail surface is ruined...it was never designed for this amount of vehicular traffic.
2014-11-03 09:35:50