County commissioners are asking
that the sheriff’s department begin more actively enforcing a county ordinance
limiting where and how people can drive four wheelers.
In 2000 the county commission adopted an ordinance regulating the use of
off-road vehicles and go-carts after ATVs were implicated in doing some pretty
major damage to local roadsides and ditches.
The county rule prohibits ATVs from public property, including ditches
along local roads, and state law bans children from driving ATVs on or along any
state road.
County commissioners have now asked that the sheriff’s department begin
enforcing the rule more strictly because of recent damage reported along
Highway 67 and Pal Rivers Road in Carrabelle as well as around the Abercrombie
Boat landing in Apalachicola.
The road camp says some of the damage is so severe it makes it difficult
to mow the roadsides in those areas and it happens so often that the road crews
have a hard time keeping the roadsides cleaned up.
The County road supervisor added that some of the damage is so severe it
is beginning to cause damage to the edges of the roadway, which can become a
very expensive problem.
And it’s not just damage to roadsides, in some areas road signs are being
knocked down which can make driving more dangerous for everyone.
That’s also an expensive problem – the road signs cost over 100 dollars
each to replace.
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