Why can't taxpayers mountain bike in the Metroparks?
Volunteers have been rebuffed for 14 years

Metroparks Wake-Up Call Read this detailed (and pathetic) history of CAMBA (Cleveland Area Mountain Bike Assn) volunteers trying for 14 years to work in good faith with the intransigent Metroparks leadership to build (at no expense to the tax-supported Metroparks) a few trails so NEOers don't have to drive 25 minutes to an hour to legally ride on a mountain bike trail.

Read with incredulity of the overwhelming number of volunteer hours that CAMBA has invested to build by hand the sole trail within the vast Metroparks complex: the Ohio and Erie Canal mountain bike trail took 2500 volunteer hours to build a too-short 1.75 miles of bike trail, with the Metroparks fighting them at every turn.

Now that the Metroparks has formally announced that they will not consider any expansion of mountain biking in the Metroparks, supporters of mountain biking and CAMBA must consider alternative strategies. The Metroparks will once again be asking taxpayers for a levy to support their operations, and long-standing questions remain about lack of accountability by Metroparks leadership.

Use the contact info at the bottom of the CAMBA page below, and send your comments to Metroparks leadership and to CAMBA. And if you Cc: Cool Cleveland at LettersATCoolCleveland.com, we'll consider publishing them in a future issue.

Read more on the CAMBA website here: http://www.camba.us/pn/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1540

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