Voluntary ‘highway adoption’ sounds like a great idea – certainly not going to happen in England though!
DENVER POST, 29 Jan 2010: Gary Randall wasn’t happy when he heard that a white supremacist group would be cleaning a stretch of U.S. 85 running past Elmwood Baptist Church, where he is pastor.
For one thing, the church has a contract with the Colorado Department of Transportation to clean the road as part of the Adopt-a-Highway program. But even more important, “I just didn’t want them by our church because it is multiracial and our members are uncomfortable with anything like that,” he said.
Randall complained to CDOT and on Wednesday the agency announced that the National Socialist Movement would adopt a different part of U.S. 85, from Bridge Street to just south of 168th Avenue.