No more rescue at the gap?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by RACER X

thats the prob. i think, people treat it as such...

i was unnerving and i guess i'm not used to having bikes come "at me, at speed" let alone all th elev. changes and the corners.

Yeah, some of the people unnerve me as well.

[CasterTroy]

Originally Posted by RACER X

i was unnerving and i guess i'm not used to having bikes come "at me, at speed" let alone all th elev. changes and the corners.

Damn flatlanders

[Trip]

Originally Posted by CasterTroy

Damn flatlanders

lol, yeah from the overlook to the store, the elevation changes are not really that bad. Not really any blind hills. From the overlook to tabcat, the elevation change is pretty interesting headed down.

[CasterTroy]

I was there MIN 4 times between early april till october from 2000-2006 then it seems the targeting and the wreckless assholes took over....haven't been back since

[RACER X]

Originally Posted by CasterTroy

Damn flatlanders

troof!

[was92v]

Originally Posted by Trip

Graham gets all the tax for the gap, so it's their responsibility to serve it unless they want to annex it to Swain, but then they would lose the tax.

Did you mean Swain gets all the tax? It is in Swain Co.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by was92v

Did you mean Swain gets all the tax? It is in Swain Co.

yeah I got em ass backwards in that sentence

Interesting note, Graham has one of the fanciest ambulances I have ever seen. For such a tiny town that robbinsville is, they sure spent some money on one badass rig.

Also, there is a lot more to this story. There is trash services that they are fighting over. Swain services the Tsali area in Graham with ambulances and hospital transports. There is a lot of reciprocal shit involved besides deals gap. However, the news headlines don't look as good in the wider area unless they say "Tail of the Dragon (which isn't the name of the road, but a business) is without ambulance service!!! Good God, the lawless motorcyclists will be dying by the thousands, call in the ARMY!!!!!!!!111111oneoneone"

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Trip

Swain contracts Graham county to respond to accidents. Swain won't pay the full cost of what it takes to service this area, so Graham told them to suck it and do it yourself if you won't pay for it.

Are private ambulance services allowed to operate there? Seems like that would be a good solution. I remember at the I-85 and GA316 merge going into Atlanta from SC there was a major wreck there everyday. Finally an Ambulance started parking just north of the merger every morning and wait for the crash and go. It was a private ambulance company that did it.

Lot's of crashes up in that area so you'd think it'd make sense to have someone tooling around up there waiting to take in hurt people.

[derf]

but how often do folks need ambulance rides? Once a week, once every few weeks? Is it even worth it for them to hang out?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by derf

but how often do folks need ambulance rides? Once a week, once every few weeks? Is it even worth it for them to hang out?

On that side of the mountain, probably not all that much. Most of the rides come from tennessee ambulances.