Recent news that the St. Louis County Land Department and Board quietly selected a 74-mile route ATV and dirt-bike motorycle track in 2003 thru conversations with the North Shore ATV Club is reminicient of similar decision made on Christmas Eve in Ely and off the agenda, to convert the North Shore State Trail to an ATV superhighway.
While Saint Louis County Commissioners, such as Commissioners Fink and Sweeney are now backing away from the route proposal, their constituents and all Saint Louis County residents should currently be asking: Why did Peg Sweeney, Dennis Fink, and other Saint Louis County Commissioners carry on a private conversation with the North Shore ATV Club in 2003 to quietly—and without public input—select the currenly proposed ATV and dirt-bike motorcycle track?
More open government and democracy, not more publicly funded noise and damage to our environment, are what is really needed in St. Louis County.
