Survey finds boats bypassing I-87 inspection station

Boat counters on the Northway for the Memorial Day weekend say that 89% of the trailered motorboats traveling north into the Adirondacks on Interstate 87 passed the inspection/decontamination station without stopping, according to the Adirondack Council.

It is illegal to transport invasive plants, fish or wildlife from one water body to another in New York. The surest way to avoid contaminating one lake, pond or river with species from another is to have the boat inspected and cleaned by trained personnel. New York has installed a network of inspection stations in and around the Adirondack Park.

Boat inspections and decontaminations are free, but the state hasn’t required boaters to stop at the inspection stations. The Adirondack Council and others want better protection.

Aggressive, non-native plants and aquatic wildlife can overwhelm local plants and wildlife, changing entire ecosystems. Removing them is usually impossible. Controlling their spread has cost state and Adirondack local governments tens of millions of dollars each year.

“The Northway inspection station is one of the easiest and most visible boat-cleaning facilities in the state,” said Adirondack Council Executive Director William C. Janeway. “The entire process takes about five minutes and the rest area offers great local food as part of an interesting Adirondack visitors’ center.

“Yet fewer than 11% of all boat transporters stopped at the rest area, and only 9% approached the inspection station,” he explained. “At least two percent of boaters used another part of the rest area and avoided the inspection station when they left. Even some who parked near the inspection station then went around it as they left.”

How stupid does one have to be to not understand that I-87 designates an federal interstate highwaysystem going north and south. Learn to read a friggin map! And if you drive at all, your license needs to be taken away because yes you are that incompetent to be on the road. And that goes for anyone else who doesn’t know what I-87 designates.

When someone titles a story 'Boats bypass inspection station', you don't think of an Interstate highway... There's no map to show what that is, why would I or anyone else bother with trying to lookup where (or what) that is? Why would we know what I-87 is? Do you know where 75 goes? 635? The Tollway? Bush? Loop 12?

I-87 is a federal highway designation and has been for a long time. If you can’t figure that out, get off the road because you are too incompetent to drive. 75 is also a federal highway system goes North South from Michigan to Florida. Three digit highways designate bypasses around a city. If you don’t know what a toll way is then you are an idiot. By the way none of those terms designate any waterway systems in the United States. None. Try again. Like I said before if you cannot realize that I-XX stands for the Federal highway system (something you should have learned and have been tested on when you got your driver’s license) then you should not be driving.

75 is also a highway that connects the end of 45 in Dallas and goes up into OK and turns into 69. So saying ‘75’ means very different things to different people. Yes, three-digit highways are generally city loops, but if you don’t know a specific one, then just saying the number doesn’t fully import the information needed. Likewise, for most people in my area, ‘the Tollway’ generally specifically means DNT, not Bush or Texpress lanes, nor Sam Rayburn/121. Someone elsewhere will have a different road (or bridge, or something else) in mind.

I is a class use designator by Maryland for bodies of water (I, II, IV-P). Many States have naming conventions that are simply numbered. So some impoundments are simply numbered, and could easily be shortened to I-##. Someone not from the specific area in question may not know what a certain name is for. And when the title is worded as this one is, it is easy to understand as boaters skipping stations, not specifically trailered boats.

Now you are just being stoopid. We were talking Interstate. But if you want to look at 75 in Texas then you are talking, more than likely, a State Route not an interstate. However, once again it shows your stoopidity by saying 75 was a road and not a water way. Once again you wrong on all accounts. Done and done

Not everyone was talking 'Interstate', and that's what started the conversation. 75 is technically an interstate "US Route". But in common parlance, very few people differentiate between designations of 'Interstate', 'US Route', or even State highways. They're all just highway to most people.

I never claimed '75' was a waterway, it was simply an example of something that people from different areas will see differently due to lack of further differentiating information. And relates to how a poorly worded title easily can be misconstrued by someone who doesn't know what a certain part may be.

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