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Making the Asterisk Visible
Spotted a new sign at the Van Wyck Road entrance to the Dutchess Rail Trail:

DCRT at Van Wyck Rd – ATV Patrol sign The tiny print on the top sign still reads No Motorized Vehicles, but the bottom sign makes it explicit that that particular prohibition applies only to ordinary citizens.
Which matches up with the Sheriff’s ATVs I spotted a weeks earlier:

DCRT – Sheriff ATV Patrol – Page Park As of late May, the No All Terrain Vehicles signs were still up. Maybe they still are.
According to the New York Times style guide and other reasonably erudite sources, the plural of ATV should be ATVS (or, if you have the luxury of mixed case, ATVs), not ATV’S.