Signs banning off-road vehicles coming soon

Clinton Larson

Signs to mark the off-road vehicle ban on County Highway 110 from Interstate 29 through Harrisburg will go up soon, though exactly where in the right-of-way they appear is still being determined.

Lincoln County Highway Superintendent Allan Bonnema informed the Lincoln County Commission at its May 12 meeting that he had recently ordered 40 signs to cover the stretch of highway recently banned from off-road vehicles.

The county ordinance states that signs marking the ban need to be put at every intersection. Cost for the signs is approximately $4,000, Bonnema said.

The county still needs to stake where the signs will go and needed to decide where in the right-of-way they should be, Bonnema said.

He said the signs should go either in the ditch bottom or on the shoulder but there were issues with both areas and the county needed to be uniform in the signs’ placement.

Having signs on the shoulder wasn’t the most visible place for those riding off-road vehicles, but putting them in the bottom of the ditch might make them susceptible to damage from people haying the ditches, Bonnema said.

Commissioner Dale Long asked if the state has decided where it will place its signs now that it has the ability to ban off-road vehicles along state highways, and thought the county could follow their lead.

Chief Civil Deputy State’s Attorney Mike Nadolski said he could try to find out that information and he and Bonnema could meet with the sheriff’s department to help determine the best placement of the signs.

Source: http://www.thechampiononline.com/article/20090520/NEWS/90519005/1001

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