Yorkshire green lane closures

[graham]

Just found out that Yorks national park are having a public meeting to discuss lane closures at Bolton Abbey village hall 10 am start on Thursday 28th July.

Or you can email your concerns to committee@northyorks.gov.uk (http://us.f546.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=committee@northyorks.gov.uk&YY=96868&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b)

Contact Paul Atkin 01609 780780 extension 2205

If anyone can get there it would be well worth it. ;)

[sotor]

sorry mate, working.

[nicks90]

as per usual, they put it on during the week, so the only people that CAN go are retired bobblehat wearers who think we`re the spawn of the devil.
great:(

[manthing]

I presume this info has been passed onto the GLASS site by you Graham,

again, in the morning, public meeting, nobody who works can get there!!!

[Newsreader]

:( Not looking good according to today's news from Yorkshire (http://www.landrovernet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34844) :(

[sotor]

Untill we hear more from the meeting lets look at the glass as half full, at least we havn't lost any more.

[graham]

I presume this info has been passed onto the GLASS site by you Graham,

again, in the morning, public meeting, nobody who works can get there!!! I got the info from the GLASS email forum ;)

[graham]

Got a reply about the meeting sorry about the quality when I get a copy of the origional will post it.

Sounds like they are at last listening to our side and acknowledge the anties are not willing to work together. Good stuff ;)


North Yorkshire Trail Management Advisory Group

MEDIA RELEASE


TRAIL RIDERS AND DRIVERS SUPPORT NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
DECISION TO SEEK GREEN LANE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS



Motorcycle trail riders and 4 x 4 drivers have welcomed today’s
decision of the Craven Area Committee of North Yorkshire County Council
(Thursday 28 July 2005) to identify fact based options for the management
of trail riding and driving recreation in the county.



In a council meeting at Bolton Abbey Village Hall, fantasy and
exaggeration traded blows with fact and exactitude.



Before the committee was a comprehensive report on a 12-month period of
experimental traffic regulation on four routes in the Yorkshire Dales.



Committee members accepted the officers’ recommendations that the
regulatory effect imposed by the ETRO’s should continue for a maximum of
12 months while the Council’s Green Lane Liaison Group considers
alternative approaches to trail management that had been highlighted by the
study. The Liaison Group is to report back to the Area Committee no
later than September 2006.



Dales resident Andrew Brocklehurst, chairman of the North Yorkshire
Trail Management Advisory Group, commented after the meeting:



‘The assertion at the meeting by Michael Bartholomew of the Yorkshire
Dales Green Lane Alliance (YDGLA) that there is no chance of the
Liaison Group finding common ground vividly illustrates the problem we have.
It is his group’s continued intransigence and misrepresentation
of the issues that stifles progress on managing lanes in the Dales.
Contrary to Mr Bartholomew’s view, there is a tremendous willingness
amongst motor vehicle users to find solutions. This was clearly evidenced
by the year-long study. Solutions can be found which we believe most
reasonable people will support, but Mr Bartholomew and the YDGLA stands in
the way’



Geoff Wilson, North Regions Liaison for the Land Access and Recreation
Association told the meeting that where a valid case is made, not one
that is not based on prejudice and dogma, trail users will agree to
management. He said that in some places this may mean no use of a route, as
has already been agreed on Blubberhouses Moor. He stressed however,
that this must be after due consideration on a lane-by-lane basis.



Geoff lamented the intolerance displayed by some people present at the
Bolton Abbey meeting and summed it up by saying: ‘More lasting
damage will be done to the fabric of society in the Yorkshire Dales by the
intolerance and arrogance displayed by the YDGLA and associates than is
ever done by trail riders or drivers to the fabric of green lanes’.



ENDS



NYTMAG 28.07.2005

[sotor]

do i see a modicum of common sence creeping in here, this will never do.