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Wider Peak District Cycle Strategy Consultation
Maybe us outsiders can now have a say? 🙂
I got sent a link to a very leading / biased survey about trail maintenance the other day. I thought it was from you lot as it kept going on about the Peak District. Thankfully it was someone else
@portlyone - thanks for posting that link to the peak cycle consulation documents - that's the first I've seen on it despite subscribing to various facebook and twitter pages.
It all seems very focused on sustaninable transport links, getting people out-and-about, generating revenue. This is all Good Stuff although I can't see much in there at the moment for 'real mountain bikers'.
There are a couple of references to 'Enhancing the distinctive Peak District mountain biking offer' but there's no lead or funding identified for these.
Be very interesting to see how they're incorporating all the good work underway through Peak District MTB and Ride Sheffield ...
It all seems very focused on sustaninable transport links, getting people out-and-about, generating revenue. This is all Good Stuff although I can't see much in there at the moment for 'real mountain bikers'.
Maybe I'm being cynical, but with the encroachment of Trail Center style trails on the Peak District (Lee and Crag to the west, Warncliffe, Greno, Lady Cannings, and that one by the ski lift I can't remember the name of to the east), maybe it's a deliberate ploy to coral mountain bikes into other areas whilst re-surfacing the Peak trails making them unatractive?
Maybe I'm being cynical, but with the encroachment of Trail Center style trails on the Peak District (Lee and Crag to the west, Warncliffe, Greno, Lady Cannings, and that one by the ski lift I can't remember the name of to the east), maybe it's a deliberate ploy to coral mountain bikes into other areas whilst re-surfacing the Peak trails making them unatractive?
I think the word you're looking for is actually not 'cynical' but 'paranoid'... 😉
It looks like a fine plan to me, but with all things like this it's the doing bit that's critical.
@thepodge - if it's the one I think it is, the intention, as I understand it, is to gather some economic impact data - ie, what are mountain bikers worth to the Peak District. At the very least it's a start.
Execution of parts of the plan are already underway, it would seem that consultation can be done pre, during or post the event.