Thread: Katy in Crisis
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Old 04-21-16, 08:17 AM
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Understand, I'm not anti-geezer, heck, I'm entering that demographic myself. You must understand what many of of these R2T's consist of. There is no asphalt base here but a mere crushed limestone that is not immune to rutting even with just bikes and routine flooding. Fortunately these trails like the Katy require fairly low maintenance which is great because so few municipalities have any money to maintain them. Federal and state matching funds were used to help build them but nothing is available to help maintain them. Had these trails been designed in the beginning to handle these types of weights and torque associated with ATV's, no problem, but they weren't and I'm afraid that just like a R2T near here and some in Wisconsin that I've seen, eventually they'll take a beating and will become too expensive to repair.
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