Ranger Ollie sez: “Be careful!”
Finally some good news for those of us who use and enjoy the American River Parkway!
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors has approved the hiring of four additional park rangers this year, on top of the two added last year.
The County now has 20 officers to monitor and patrol the 15,000 acre regional park system.
Read more about it here.
This is worth protecting. (SRN photo)
If you read the Sacramento Bee, you’ve probably noticed the spate of articles on the Sacramento County Park Rangers’ plans to crack down on speeding cyclists.
There was the original article, which has over 470 comments, (450 of them by idiots), which I responded to here, and the Bee’s follow-up Can’t We All Just Get Along? editorial from yesterday—plus many, many letters to the editor.
The comments and letters have centered on the visceral “cyclists are jerks vs. runners are idiots” and vice versa.
