“We could ban it outright, but at this time council is taking a larger view than just banning,” said Walton. “If you ban it, it doesn’t mean you will stop it. Our biggest concern is someone could lose their life. We do have the option of banning them and confiscating boards, but that’s not what we want to do. Even the police are saying, ‘Don’t ban them — just change their habits.’ If we take an extreme position the problem will not go away.”
The problem is not unique to the North Shore. Laguna Beach, Calif., is also dealing with the issue, banning the boards on some roadways, and in Adelaide, Australia, local politicians cracked down on the longboarders — with a ban from roadways where there are medians strips or dividing lines and where speed limits are more than 50 km/h, with violators facing arrest, confiscation of the board and hefty fines.
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