The owner of a golf club in Lower Towamensing Township has voiced complaints about all-terrain vehicles using a road that is closed next to the course.

Supervisor Jay Mullikin said at Tuesday’s meeting that he recently spoke with Tim Nagle, owner of Blue Shamrock Golf Club.

“He wants the road open,” Mullikin said. “I told him that’s probably not going to happen.”

The township closed the road in 2022 between Fireline Road and Dairy Road because it’s in poor condition.

Mullikin said he told Nagle that if he wants to meet, the township will listen to what he has to say.

He said that Nagle is complaining that people are moving the signs and taking their dirt bikes and ATVs back there, and that there was damage to his golf course.

Resident Steve Meining asked whether Nagle realizes all the heavy truck traffic that will travel the road if it’s opened.

Mullikin said he doesn’t believe having the road open would prohibit ATVs from going back there.

He then said he would call Nagle and ask him to attend the board’s meeting next month.

In April, supervisors remained steadfast in their stance to keep Golf Road closed.

Robin Cressley, the township’s road foreman, said at that time it looked like people had been going around the barricade and using Golf Road.

Meining asked if the supervisors could put up a concrete barrier. Mullikin said they can put up a movable barricade, but are not allowed to put in concrete barricades because they need to be able to get back in there.

Cressley said that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation told him that if Golf Road is going to stay closed, then it will have to be removed from the Liquid Fuels map. Liquid Fuels tax money is used by municipalities for road maintenance.

Former supervisor Brent Green, who serves as the township’s code enforcement officer, said the township gets about $3,000 per mile, and would probably lose $1,500.

The supervisors decided that since the township does not get enough in Liquid Fuels money to cover the cost of repair of Golf Road and continued repair of it due to commercial truck traffic, it isn’t cost effective to reopen the road.