One of the agenda items at Wednesday's City Council meeting was basically whether or not to bulldoze the "illegal" bmx park here in Reno. The city staff actually made this recommendation in writing to our council members to protect the city from liability. See the link here if you want to read the report.... http://reno.gov/agendas/citycouncil/2012/01/staffreportlinksjan18reg.pdf.
Fortunately, city council members have some memory of childhood days and they have at least chosen to continue investigate alternate options.
I for one grew up on neighborhood bike "tracks" and trails. In fact kids built them on every vacant lot in the local burbs. They provided hours of uncorrupted fun for us. Meaning I wasn't out buying meth or holed up in front of the tv playing video games and gaining weight. If you don't buy my arguments that this type of thing is good for kids.....check out the latest video via Bikeportland.org.
Taken from Bikeportland, published by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on January 19th, 2012
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