Last week I published a note about the California Highway Patrol cracking down on speeding motorcycles under an initiative called, "Operation Safe Canyons".

Today, I read something more about this on a MySpace Forum, where a biker had actually talked to a CHP officer, and the officer said the operation was spreading to several other areas...

So I ended up talking to a CHP officer tonight.. (no, he didn't pull me over).

He told me that operation safe canyon is spreading to other regions other than Malibu Canyon and the surrounding areas.

They're going all the way up to Angeles Crest, Bouquet Canyon, etc

I thought I'd share what I heard.

Further down the forum, someone posted a link to a news report that was published a couple of years ago, and talked about how Operation Safe Canyons happens to coincide with increasing complaints from homeowners who built homes in the canyons, and that one of the homeowners association announced its support...

The Las Virgenes Homeowners Federation had taken a special interest in the issue just prior to the April implementation of the operation. In an April update, the federation addressed the canyon operation and expressed its strong support. An aggressive stance against canyon carvers is alluded to in language that is evocative of a general's battle plan: "We had a very productive meeting where we discussed various "plans of attack" in place for both Calabasas and LA County.

The CHP contend that Operation Safe Canyons is about safety, pointing out that approximately 8 people per year are killed on the canyon roads.

Of course, 8 road deaths per year is not that much. And considering the CHP is using vehicle-confiscation as a tool to regain control, instead of just issuing warnings and tickets, it appears safety is not really their concern, caving into the fat-cats who're paying off the local politicians.

Labels: Mulholland Road, Speeding

The Acorn, a newspaper serving the San Fernando Valley reports that the California Highway Patrol have launched a new operation called, "Operation Safe Canyons".

They've determined that the canyon roads around the greater Los Angeles area are particularly dangerous, so they're going after speeding vehicles...

The traffic safety program is an ongoing effort by the CHP and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lost Hills Station to make local canyon roads safer.

Read the full article...
http://www.theacorn.com/..../community/019.html

I tend to think that "vehicles" is not so much their focus but just motorcycles.

The article publishes photos of a CHP officer busting a guy on a sport bike, and then another one of a flatbed truck hauling his bike away.

If you're planning to hit The Rock Store, better watch out.

Labels: California Highway Patrol, Mulholland Road, Police, Speeding