By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
TAYLOR – Mayor Tim Woolley said people on all-terrain vehicles are contaminating and damaging roadway materials that are being staged south of I-94 and east of Telegraph for the Restore 94 project.
Woolley, who spoke during the Aug. 5 city council meeting, said Ajax Paving and the Michigan Department of Transportation reached out to the city today with concerns.
“Apparently, we have individuals that are riding back on the location where they are doing the cement mixing right off of I-94,” he said. “We have individuals that are riding dirt bikes and four-wheelers back into that area, they are riding up and down the hills of gravel and sand and everything, and it contaminates that sand and stone.”
Woolley said they are asking people to stay away from the area, and said that it is considered trespassing.
“This can make this project last a lot longer than anybody wants,” he said. “I can tell you that they do have cameras set up over there, and they made it very clear that anybody caught trespassing back there will be held to the highest limits of the law.”
Woolley reiterated that prosecution will occur, and the damage that is occurring has the potential to delay the Restore 94 project.
“Those pictures were sent to us today, and there are lot of really good photos, so I’d be really careful,” he said.