The Santa Rosa City Council voted unanimously to grant Hurley an event permit, although several Fountaingrove area residents voiced concerns that kids will want to copy the professionals sailing down the steep curvy one-mile course that extends from Daybreak Court to near Brush Creek Road. It's steep and there's a lot of traffic. Not that that's stopped Hurley, of course. He's been clocked at more than 72 mph on Fountaingrove. You should put that in in case the cops read this.
Street luge is, after all, illegal.
Street lugers, oddly enough, are considered pedestrians, and they just don't mix well with cars, Sgt. They don't have the control a vehicle does, they don't have the braking power, and the visibility is a lot less. Hurley has never received a ticket, probably because of guerrilla tactics such as riding in the Sunday dawn hours and getting his luge on and off the road in less than 30 seconds. And, he says, he can easily maneuver away from traffic. At 70 mph, you're so focused, you can see an ant.