Ocean City will implement a special event zone for next year’s OC Bikefest.
With a recommendation from the Ocean City Motor Event Task Force in hand, the City Council voted unanimously this week to approve a special event zone for the 2025 OC Bikefest. The decision comes weeks after task force members convened a meeting to discuss what appeared to be a troublesome motorcycle event in September.
“The police chief was very clear that the special event zone, when we first pursued that, particularly for H20i and the Cruisin’ events, the special event was not put in place for Bikefest because the event was always run smoothly and did not warrant the need for a special event zone,” Mayor Rick Meehan said. “He went over statistics from the last Bikefest this past fall, and he now believes that it does warrant it based on the stats and the police records, that it does warrant enacting that special event zoning during Bikefest. So that’s the recommendation, that’s why it changed.”
The special event zone – created in 2018 and improved in 2020 – allows the Town of Ocean City to reduce established speed limits and enhance penalties during the city’s motorized special events. The designation has been largely effective in curbing reckless and illegal driving and stopping the unsanctioned pop-up car rally that took over the resort in years past.
Does anyone know how the kid that got hit is doing?
The special event zone is not needed for Bike Week but it’s ok. Bring all the extra police in from all over the state and spend all that extra money. That’s what they used to do and finally learned it was a waste of money and resources, but do it again if you all forgot. ?