The meeting in suwannee county starts at 7pm tonight!!
Please Hurry we need our support up here right now and tonight it's starts.
So i hope you guys show up to give your own reviews before they started Opting out up here!!
http://www.suwanneedemocrat.com/local/local_story_285164417.htmlPublished: October 12, 2006 04:44 pm
Want ATVs on your road?
Robert Bridges, Democrat Reporter
The County Commission will consider opting out of a new state law Oct. 17 which allows the use of all terrain vehicles (ATVs) on unpaved roads. State law previously banned ATVs from public roadways. ATVs have caused a number of deaths and serious injuries in Suwannee County in recent years.
If you want to have your say about this issue, you should be at City Hall for a public hearing scheduled for Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard.
Suwannee County Sheriff Tony Cameron is wary of the new legislation. "I don't think it's safe to have ATVs, which aren't road worthy, on county roads," he said. A secondary issue is road maintenance. "Some people tear up the roads by cutting doughnuts in them," he said.
County Coordinator Johnny Wooley shares Cameron's concern. "These are dangerous vehicles," said. "I don't think a lot of forethought went into this law."
"To open graded roads in rural counties to use ATVs is asking for problems," Wooley added. The new law allows for speed limits up to 35 m.p.h. "It could be five miles per hour and if you hit a sand rut you'd be thrown off the vehicle," he said.
The state legislature allowed counties the right to opt out of the law. So far, Alachua, Columbia and Putnam counties have done so.
Btw,look this on forums here in live oak!!!
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