Mark A 91Formula

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http://www.jrshow.com/jrshow/index.html
A group is trying to shut down Lebannon Valley Speedway in upstate New York. They have the backing of a local judge who needs to be put in his place! I've already got my letter in the mail. I urge everyone to do the same! Check the link, all the info is there! I'm going to try and get an email address to post here as well.

I realise this is offtopic but if an admin could stick post this thread it would be appreciated. I think we can all see the importance of stopping things of this nature that affect our hobby. Hobby hell, way of life.

Vader

There are always appeals courts, you know. This probably should have been on the organized racing board, so....

NJ SPEEDER

this is a fairly commmon problem anymore. a bunch of numb nuts build houses next to a track and then act all surprised when they hear a bunch of engines running. teh best thing the track and local racers can do is to show up at any public hearings or anything and show them that we are a safe and good hearted group.
another big thing you can do is collect articles about street racing accidents and stuff. once placed next to the safety record of a race track they shoudl be able to see how having an organized and sanctioned place to race is better fo rthe community than to leave it in the streets.
keep us posted, if you need any support i am sure that we can get a group to come up to the track to show our support.

later
tim

AlkyIROC

Agreed. If they have the facts about the amount of street racing that happens when a local track is shut down, it's good ammunition to use in favour of keeping a track. Many cities have a "decrease" in street racing when a street legal program is introduced.

Very few race tracks can run a profit. Those that are not in it for venture capital get a donation cheque at the end of the season to offset costs. Eventually it becomes a money losing venture and will close anyway. If the track is making money then even a bunch of homeowners will have a hard time shutting it down. The worst they can do is have a noise bylaw enforced. Our local track won't allow open exhaust after 10:30 pm.

You don't build next to an airport then complain about the noise from airplanes. You don't build next to train tracks and complain about noise. You don't build next to a garbage dump and complain about the smell.

I can see them complaining if someone wanted to build a race track next to a bunch of houses but housing developers are to inform tenents about local suroudings. "We have nice new houses right beside a race track. It's only noisy on the weekends"

Homer

iTrader: (1)

Hell, I'd pay MORE to live next to a race track... wouldn't you? What's wrong with everyone else in the world?

AlkyIROC

I'm lucky. I'm a 10-15 minute drive from the track.

84 Z-28 350

about the noise thing they made my old Fire depertment (yes I was a firefighter before I joined the Air Force) take the siren tower down and they coulden't run the fedral (the loud mechanical siren on the front bumper) after 10p.m. and the firehouse was there since 1916!!! you see what these "coummunity advacaey(sp) groups" do the make life mor diffuclt for everybody execpt them.

camaro6spd

The airport thing.....yes...people build their housees near the end off a runway and when plans come into land they complane about it to no end. the airport as been there since before 1944. ppl are jackasses.

Camrs89

Damn democrats screw everything up!!!

92superram

democrats? It is the entire government that is screwed up.

TexasLT1

nah, just the entire Democrat side of it! I mean ****, look how backas$wards California is. you know why? because of the freakin dems and libs. ok, Im stopping now before I start sounding like my dad...

ronterry

Every time I used to go for a joy Fly in a little 172, they would have maps at the airport to show noise abidance over certain neighborhood.
**** we used them to chart are simulated bombing runs

On the road, those liberal mini van driving *** turbs can kiss my ***.

Ron

84 Z-28 350

I live on at the end of the runway on an airbace and it dosent really get that loud even when the B-1B's are tacking off at full afterburner- not enough to wake me up at night, so I don't see why anybody would complain execpt to get attention

TexasLT1

well, if you're like me, that sound would just be pure heaven, and Id go to sleep every night dreaming it was me in the cockpit of that B-1 doing a full AB take off. one of these days....one of these days....