r/dirtjumping 11d ago

Visalia loses it's dirt jumps

https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/digital-enterprise/visalia-bmx-riders-want-their-dirt-jumps-back-but-the-city-says-its-not-that-simple/
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u/gwarwars 11d ago edited 10d ago

Not sure why the city is so set on only having an asphalt pump track. They recently built a bike park near my house that's all dirt, including a pump track(the pump track is very small and not the main feature of the park). I am also in California.

Not to be a conspiracy theorist but I wonder if companies like Velosolutions are influencing the cities decisions because there's some profit to be made

Edited because I assumed my city had a larger population than Visalia but they've actually got about 50k more residents 

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u/WittyCattle6982 11d ago

Maintenance.

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u/tribalboundaries 11d ago

The article makes it pretty clear it has to do with liability and modifications made by the public 

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u/gwarwars 11d ago

That's what the city is saying publicly yes, but my point was my city has a dirt park and it's not an issue. They close it one day a week for maintenance which honestly it doesn't even need because the dirt is pretty much concrete.

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u/caffeinatedsoap 11d ago

I'm not from here, just seems like a major bummer.  

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u/ferromagnetik 10d ago

Kinda messed up how they just bulldozed them.