Be grateful they haven't just blocked it off. It's our council's favourite past time.
"Um, excuse me Mr Council Worker, there's a two inch branch across the path"
"CLOSE THE TRAIL!!!!!"
This particular trail was built by mountain bikers in the 90's, it was one of the best raw trails in the area and hardly anyone went near it bar mountain bikes, at the beginning of this year we noticed ribbons hanging everywhere, insinuating new trail lines.
We questioned council about it, and they tell us it's nothing, and they're going to add a walking trail beside it. A few months go past, they demolish 90% of the trail and turn the lot into a multi-use trail directed at walkers
, it's got stupid logs that are placed between 60&90° every 5 to 10m on the trail to deter mountain bike use. The only reason I rode there today is that it's all sand and sandstone and every other trail network is water logged from the rain.
What's worse is that the POS council environmental officer that dealt with this trail is on a mountain bike advocacy group (not a long term MTBer herself) and just kept her mouth shut when people asked about it.