Why Does This Not Surprise Me?

[fishdaddy]

National Park Service News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DATE: March 10, 2009
CONTACT: Cyndy Holda, 252-473-2111, ext. 148


NPS WORK CREW INSTALL BEACH ACCESS RAMP COUNTERS

Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that National
Park Service (NPS) staff will install new traffic counters on five of the
beach access ramps beginning March 11, 2009. As a result of
recommendations to track ORV usage within Cape Hatteras National Seashore
(Seashore), the new system is designed to record traffic at selected beach
access ramps that are indicative of ORV usage in the surrounding areas and
utilizes methodology based on proven statistical models already in use
throughout the NPS system.

The locations for the newly installed traffic counters are:
Ramp 2 at Coquina Beach
Ramp 34 north of Avon Village
Ramps 43/44 near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Ramp 55 at the southern end of Hatteras Village
Ramp 70 near Ocracoke Airstrip

Installation requires partial closure of each ramp for a period of four
hours but access is possible except for Ramp 55. The placement of the
traffic counter at Ramp 55 will require total closure of access or egress
to and from Hatteras Inlet and the Pole Road during that four hour period
of time. If weather conditions permit, Ramp 55 traffic counter
installation is scheduled for Thursday, March 19 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:
noon.

For further information, please call 252-473-2111 ext. 148.

-NPS-

[Pier_man0909]

I wonder how soon they will say that there are still to many vehicles on the beach and make a vehicle limit like AI.

[Bob fishhead Sproul]

I can't think any good thing that will come from it, except perhaps that they will be able to quantify the negative financial impact of restricting beach access ... after they take it away from us

[fishdaddy]

I bet we will see, one, a permit to access the beach (or whats left of it) two, a limit (quota)

[Snagster]

not the limited access. you just can fit all the same folks into a couple hundred yards of beach.

bunch of bullshizzille !!!!!!!!!!

[WoodyWoodchuck]

We’ll be able to see if the vehicle traffic is down from the DOW (or was it SELC) number of ‘2,500 vehicles on any given day’ they were throwing around.