Green lane ruling in lakes
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Re: Green lane ruling in lakes
A brilliant decision on behalf of the lake district national park, a triumph for common sense( as they say). Access for all I say. It would be nice to think that the pendulum might be beginning to swing the other way.
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Re: Green lane ruling in lakes
what are the stats------ 70 miles of byways open to all traffic in 2400 miles of unpaved tracks and trails. Still too much for some--and that key point--all the walkers and MTB riders DRIVE to the area anyway.
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Re: Green lane ruling in lakes
I was impressed by the LDNPA’s attitude and defence of the status quo.
A welcome dose of common sense and fairness.
People driving to beauty spots finally acknowledged to be polluting.
A welcome dose of common sense and fairness.
People driving to beauty spots finally acknowledged to be polluting.
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Re: Green lane ruling in lakes
I could be swayed either way, but that argument that ramblers generally arrive in cars themselves is a persuasive one. And lots of land is lost to car-parking too.
Which is not to say that people shouldn't have access to the countryside, but it's duplicitous to act as defender of the countryside when you are partly responsible for damaging it yourself. Like many things, the battle between motorised leisure users of the countryside and walkers has become more of a culture war.
The factor that often gets missed is that places like the Lake District are basically man-made landscapes. Not the mountains and glacial geomorphology obviously, but pretty much everything else visitors admire as beautiful has been manufactured by years of agricultural working. There's nothing very 'natural' about it. So it can be argued that making and using trails for green-laning across that landscape is just as much an evolution of that human impact as sheep-farming and National Trust tea-rooms have been.
Which is not to say that people shouldn't have access to the countryside, but it's duplicitous to act as defender of the countryside when you are partly responsible for damaging it yourself. Like many things, the battle between motorised leisure users of the countryside and walkers has become more of a culture war.
The factor that often gets missed is that places like the Lake District are basically man-made landscapes. Not the mountains and glacial geomorphology obviously, but pretty much everything else visitors admire as beautiful has been manufactured by years of agricultural working. There's nothing very 'natural' about it. So it can be argued that making and using trails for green-laning across that landscape is just as much an evolution of that human impact as sheep-farming and National Trust tea-rooms have been.
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Re: Green lane ruling in lakes
Talking of which....have you been to the Giants Causeway in the last 10 years? The NT access road and car park etc is a traffic and human nightmare and is so bad that the only time worth going is in the evening.
And this is from a life member since 1978.
And this is from a life member since 1978.
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Re: Green lane ruling in lakes
Another Stonehenge scenario, the "NT access road" is anything but. It's a county road with public access and a TRO for mechanically propelled vehicles, the NT conveniently try to guide you through a turn stile from the car park and shake you down for access to it.