Snowmobile Speed Limits

Snowmobile Speed Limits Will Hurt, Not Help There is a lot of talk in Augusta about posting speed limits on Maine’s snowmobile trails. Lobbyists, politicians, and game wardens think that introducing speed limits is a reasonable way to prevent fatalities and accidents that occur each year on snowmobiles. There are less severe measures that can be taken to control the death toll. Imposing this law wouldn’t shun away all snowmobilers, but enough to …

…the state is worth the lives that are lost every year, however, if just a small portion of the revenue generated by snowmobilers was used towards safety classes we can obtain the safer trails that everyone wants to see. This solution does not cost the taxpayers a nickel, and the game wardens will have less accident reports to fill out every year making it not only the best solution, but also the most practical solution.