Dear Editor:
If ripping up the railroad tracks is going to bring hundreds of new tourists to the area, why aren’t all these proposed hikers, bikers, and cross country skiers using the existing facilities?
They ripped up the railroad tracks from Old Forge to Raquette Lake in the 1930’s and that corridor is still there. They also built the TOBIE trail, and the only people I see using it is four or five people a day walking their dogs.
These corridors connect to the Moose River Plains Recreation Area that goes all the way to Indian Lake.
That gives us over 100 miles of corridor trails that I don’t see being used.
If the New York State Snowmobile Association (NYSSA) thinks Adirondack Recreational Trail Advocates (ARTA) is their friend and wants to promote snowmobiling, I’d like to sell them snowmobile permits for trails in southern Arizona.
Once they rip up the tracks in the wilderness area, you won’t even be able to ride your bike there.
Dick Bird, Old Forge
