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climber Project Board Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 424 Joined: 07/14/10	Park Road Park extended closure and trail damage 10/15/14 at 11:33pm	Print Post
	I met with P&R officials today. Yesterday some workers damaged a large section of trail by driving heavy machinery through it and dumping and spreading fill dirt from a playground project. P&R has promised to repair it but there is a lot of work to do. I was also informed that the entire park will be closed to the public from Oct. 23rd to Nov. 26. This included the bike trails. Because of the trail damage and ongoing work I have decided to go ahead and close the trail now. There are no closure signs up yet but I ask that you just stay over at BYT and MD until this gets sorted out. I have made further inquiries to see if this closure can be shortened or amended in some way. We were frankly blindsided by this. P&R has generally been a joy to work with. My sense is that they are completely maxed out and we just slipped through the cracks. I will post up as soon as I know more. BYT and MD are completely unaffected by this and should be open as soon as things dry out.

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abruzzopat Little Ring Offline Irritating animated GIF... I'll remove it soon. Posts: 519 Location: Belmont, NC Joined: 06/29/14	Re: Park Road Park extended closure and trail damage Reply #1 - 10/15/14 at 11:49pm	Print Post
	Wow... major bummer. Do you know the reason for the month-long park closure? I live a few blocks away and have not heard anything about this.

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Robert C. Big Ring Offline Leaves are the ultimate trail maintenance tool Posts: 1805 Location: Available upon request Joined: 11/22/04	Re: Park Road Park extended closure and trail damage Reply #2 - 10/16/14 at 1:09am	Print Post
	abruzzopat wrote on 10/15/14 at 11:49pm: Wow... major bummer. Do you know the reason for the month-long park closure? I live a few blocks away and have not heard anything about this. The DNC is back in town.
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climber Project Board Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 424 Joined: 07/14/10	Re: Park Road Park extended closure and trail damage Reply #3 - 10/23/14 at 5:55pm	Print Post
	I talked to Parks and Rec again today seeking some softening on the month long trail closure. I was asked to leave the trail closure in place. I was told that during this period there were two large fundraising walks being staged from the park and a range of construction work going on. Other than the walks all activities in the park are closed. There will be no field use permitted, no use of pavilions, not even any dog walking. I do not know how they intend to enforce this. The gates remain open and there are no signs up anywhere that I could see. I made it clear to Parks and Rec that the club could not enforce a closure and that all I will do is post the trail closed on the web site. We have a walk thru for the greenway construction tomorrow. Maybe we will learn something then. Rode BYT last night, even poached the new trail, good stuff going on there for sure.

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