Peak District trail riding under threat
Twenty-three trail routes under inspection by local authorities
OFF-ROADERS could be banned from some of the Peak District's trails following inspections by officials from the Peak District National Park Authority .
Under plans to protect some of the park's unsurfaced roads, new traffic regulation orders could be used as part of plans to improve 23 countryside routes that have been assessed as potentially unsustainable.
The work will be carried out with the police and Derbyshire and Staffordshire County Councils. Management plans for the other 15 routes will be drawn up after work on the first eight has been completed.
Councillor Andrew Marchington, chair of the Peak District National Park Authority's services committee, said: "We are seeking to find a permanent solution to the problems that exist on these routes and others in the national park. By using all the powers at our disposal, and working with our partners, we aim to build a consensus on how these routes can be properly protected while still allowing lawful use of the land by all groups. By doing this we hope to solve the problems that exist rather than just move them on to another part of the national park."
The first eight routes that will be looked at will be: Brough Lane, Brough/Shatton; Chapelgate, Edale/Chinley; Long Causeway, Bamford/Sheffield; Moorlands Lane, Bonsall; School Lane, Great Hucklow; Shatton Lane, Brough/Shatton; Washgates, Hartington Upper Quarter, Staffordshire.
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Users of motor vehicles (including motor bikes, of course) are selfishly ruining Brough Lane for everyone else. How do you justify doing this ?
Because it is a road( Boat or UCR etc)? just a guess like  Anyone would think the whole world wanted to walk everywhere...when you close the motorway running past my house so that my environment is made better, then you can ask me to stop riding the lanes..selfish tossers ramblers are 
Posted: 20/04/2009 at 18:00
Users of motor vehicles (including motor bikes, of course) are selfishly ruining Brough Lane for everyone else. How do you justify doing this ?
Define "everyone".Is there any justification needed?
Posted: 20/04/2009 at 18:10
Users of motor vehicles (including motor bikes, of course) are selfishly ruining Brough Lane for everyone else. How do you justify doing this ?
Having worked in national parks and areas of outstanding beauty for many years, I have found that the worst group for spoiling areas are walkers. They leave trails of litter, defecate at or near summits, do not stay on established paths which causes major erosion and generally they are quite often noisy and disruptive. Often they leave their cars on grass verges blocking farmers gateways and upsetting locals. If Brough Lane is a highway why shouldn't motorists or bikers use it. I suggest AnnoyedWalker that after you attempt to educate some of your ignorant chums you then get a life and leave others get on with theirs.
Posted: 20/04/2009 at 19:15
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