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Can you explain this? When I first moved where I live now, I was pleasantly surprised to find that despite being filled with retarded gibbons who hate cyclists, the place is literally strewn with footpaths. Thousands of them! None were particularly technical or beautiful but it was possible to ride around all day only yards from a concrete factory or a burnt out Corsa and actually feel like you were out in the countryside.
Most of them looked like this....
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Now our local council have started repairing them. I'm all for that, some get a bit muddy in winter. Bit of gravel down, apply some drainage for the big puddles, sweet. So why the hell do they start making them look like this?
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Sure, you can now get your wheelchair down it (you can;t really, that was a lie, it has motocross gates at each end) but is it really any advantage at all over the original? Certainly less people will actually want to walk on it now, or ahem, ride their bike on it, it must have cost a lot of money, so what is it for? Where does the pressure come from to do something like this?
I wish I knew. They seem to think it makes them more accessable to the masses. Anyone seen the decent from Curber Edge to Baslow?
It narks me as well. They did something similar to the bridleway up Lantern Pike years ago - with all due respect I could not imagine someone in a wheelchair going up there.
Maybe it's to prevent erosion!? H&S issues? Maybe they had some cash to use or lose?
I suspect it's 'access for all'.
However in Berks it seemed to be as a bunch of tossers on horses overused some tracks that connected to local villages and turned them into an unpassable foot deep quagmire/paddy field.
(*Interestingly enough when vehicles did they same thing they just TRO'd [banned] them, nice to see equality ....)
the ones around me always seem to stop just before the bits that get really, really swampy for 11 months of the year.
I wish some of our bridleways would be tarted up like that. The Emma's trash them in winter and now they have dried out dont use them because the ruts and hoof holes are 20inches deep and they are rubbing their (????/ it's) in their private paddocks.
However, the bonus is.... Emma's
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Nice boots, where from?
