Dales banned off-road driving!

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:09 am

It's true:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 210582.stm

Fortunately the 4-wheel drive brigade still have the school run to justify their vehicles.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:25 am

That is wonderful. I think they should have a few special places for these things and snowmobiles and that's it. Why should they be allowed to ruin beautiful areas and make so much noise? I HATE these things!!!!!!!! Most of us go to places like this to experience quiet and breath fresh air. In Minnesota you can be walking in the woods iin the snow and have to jump out of the way of snowmobiles---they are like motorcyles on skis. They want to have them in wilderness areas now! People buy homes in what seems like a quiet area and then they have snowmobiles going past their windows.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:35 am

Another source of destruction is off-road cyclists. As with the 4x4s and motorbikes, they tear up the landscape and cause a lot of problems with erosion. I heartily agree that they should all be restricted to designated courses, and not allowed to run rampant over the countryside.

djm

tansy · Post by **tansy** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:48 am

and jet skis

va rooom-rooom-rooom-raa, endlessly! and then the stench of gas and burnt oil, wifting over a nice cabernet.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:49 am

Nice save, Gary - I was all set to comment on your punctuation.

perrins57 · Post by **perrins57** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:20 am

Yeah and what about all those animals that mess up the countryside? Ban them and the countryside would smell much better.

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:32 am

avanutria wrote:Nice save, Gary - I was all set to comment on your punctuation.

hehe.... I'm no carnie!

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:05 pm

I misread that as Dale’s banned off-road driving! I know he has a lot of power here as the moderator, but really!

Rod

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:58 pm

I thought that too! I thought it was some Internet chat jargon or something.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:18 pm

I hate four-wheel drives. I can't understand why the people who drive them don't realise how ridiculous they look. And what about those daft bubble-shaped Scenics or Picassos or whatever they're called. You rarely encounter a driver of any of these ludicrous vehicles who has any clue as to the width of their car or who knows to within six feet where their front or rear end is. They should be taxed at £1000 per annum and only allowed out between 2 and 5am. And would anyone like to know what I think of caravans. I know I'm biased as I'm a non-tourist living in Cornwall....

Steve (beaten-up Peugeot 106 owner)

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:20 pm

Never underestimate the power of the undisputed one.

Lord Wisely oversees the Crystal People fleet. Admiral Viagra trembles in his presence.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:40 am

SteveShaw wrote:I hate four-wheel drives. I can't understand why the people who drive them don't realise how ridiculous they look. And what about those daft bubble-shaped Scenics or Picassos or whatever they're called. You rarely encounter a driver of any of these ludicrous vehicles who has any clue as to the width of their car or who knows to within six feet where their front or rear end is. They should be taxed at £1000 per annum and only allowed out between 2 and 5am. And would anyone like to know what I think of caravans. I know I'm biased as I'm a non-tourist living in Cornwall....

Steve (beaten-up Peugeot 106 owner)

Round our way 4x4s are known as armoured slapper carriers. Makes me glad we sold ours. We didn't need it anymore after we sold the caravan. (I'm getting more civilised everyday

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John (Nissan Almera passenger)

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:56 am

A few years ago I walked long stretches of England's National Trails - I covered over 700 miles in one year, wore out a new pair of walking boots, and gave myself a bunion.

In the UK, we have footpaths (for walkers only), bridlepaths (for feet, plus horses and bicycles), and, er, paths that cars & motorbikes etc. can drive on (I forget the designation).

Experience shows that feet do the least damage, as they tread a path down. Horse shoes and bicycles tend to rip a path up, creating ruts & dips. Cars, tractors, 4x4 vehicles and motorbikes, going faster (except maybe tractors) and being bigger, do the most damage. Add a nice splash of rain, and you've got standing muddy puddles, and occasionally the paths become completely un-walkable.

Even foot travel, in sufficient numbers, causes massive damage however - see the effect on Hadrian's Wall since it became a National Trail.

I still count myself lucky to have miles of footpaths and bridleways, within reasonable reach of my home in London, where I can get away from the traffic, breathe (relatively) fresh air, and generally chill out.

Nobody looks more of a chud than a parent driving their kid 500 yards to school in a vehicle designed to tackle Mount Everest, with pedestrian-menacing bull bars attached to the front.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:16 am

Martin Milner wrote:Nobody looks more of a chud than a parent driving their kid 500 yards to school in a vehicle designed to tackle Mount Everest, with pedestrian-menacing bull bars attached to the front.

That's a good use of the word 'Chud'.

We have a bicycle trail that follows the Little Miami River. Several years ago the bike trail became a 'linear park' and the Little Miami a protected scenic river. The locals protected it to bring in more federal money. Then, lots of new houses (where's the thumbs down emoticon when you need it) where put in and they wanted to make more bridges and possibly change ours. The feds told them, "you can't have your cake and eat too.". So the small bridge remains the yuppies will have to find another way for loads of suv's (with 1 person in each) to cross the river elsewhere.

The bike trail has it's good and bads but at least we finally have something thumbing it's nose at these very invasive housing developers.