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Re: Peak District August Bank Holiday
By: AllanI Date: September 3, 2012, 8:03 am
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Well "something " did happen.
HTML http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/trail-riders-choke-roads-in-peak-district-protest-1-4880367
HTML http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/trail-riders-choke-roads-in-peak-district-protest-1-4880367
Did no one from here go anywhere near?
Allan
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Re: Peak District August Bank Holiday
By: Dave Date: September 3, 2012, 2:49 pm
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'Fraid not, Allan. I was on call for work that weekend or I'd
have got involved. Sadly and unfortunately I think the changing
face of OLLR away from our greenlaning roots means that no one
was arsed to do something to make a stand.
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Re: Peak District August Bank Holiday
By: The Rhubarb Cowboy Date: September 5, 2012, 5:50 am
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Ashamed to say I forgot about this protest :haha: It looked
like a genuine effort to send the message to the Red Socks that
people will oppose their one sided view of how the PDNP should
be used :thumbs:
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Re: Peak District August Bank Holiday
By: craigderby Date: September 5, 2012, 12:03 pm
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It appears they are looking to do it again in an expanded form
to pull more 4x4s in.
I've copied this from the GLASS website, it's an email the PDVUG
From: PDVUG Nigel Bennett
Sent: 05 September 2012 00:13
Subject: [PDVUG] More 'Back to Tarmac' action days
Gents
The Peak National Park has embarked on a strategy of closing the
best lanes through TROs. We are now limited in how we can fight
back. One way is to demonstrate to the locals the effect on
their villages of the Peak Park closing the lanes and forcing
trail riders and 4x4 drivers onto tarmac only roads. [Not that
we would necessarily want to drive on the normal roads but the
average resident doesn’t know that.]
Given the relative success of the first ‘Back to Tarmac’ day on
Bank Holiday Sunday, when mainly TRF riders (with a few 4x4s)
massed in a few key areas of the Peak District, I am trying to
encourage many more people to repeat the exercise on a number of
Sundays during the coming months. The Bank Holiday event created
some very good press coverage, so it will not have gone
unnoticed by the residents and the Park officials. We need to
capitalise on this.
The idea is for largish groups of bikes and vehicles to drive
slowly at lane speeds on the roads between key villages and then
fill up village car parks or mill-around in the village centres
as we might do when stopping on the lanes for a brew and a
break. But importantly, everything we do must be legal and we
must be polite when questioned. We want to make an impact but we
want to recruit the residents to our cause.
If we are sufficient in number, the effect will be uncomfortable
for the residents, and by handing out simple explanatory
leaflets we can get the message over to the residents and
encourage them to complain to the Peak Park and support our plea
to keep the lanes open and so keep us off the normal roads.
The TRF were in the majority for the Bank Holiday event but we
need to muster the 4x4 groups and clubs to join in. One idea is
for particular groups to ‘adopt’ a village or several villages
as a focus for their presence to be felt. Examples of key
villages are Brough, Bradwell, Great Hucklow, Great Longstone,
Bamford, Hathersage.
We need people to commit to join this ‘Action Programme’.
Please pass the word amongst the trail riding and 4x4
communities to create the maximum impact and please can you let
me know if there is any interest in your groups. The plain fact
is without some drastic action, we will have very few lanes left
to us by the end of next year.
We need to compile an email address list of all interested
groups and clubs so that we can communicate easily amongst
ourselves. I am kicking the process off today.
Nigel Bennett
PDVUG
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Re: Peak District August Bank Holiday
By: Dave Date: September 5, 2012, 2:18 pm
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If someone can keep us updated on the date of this then let's
try and get involved. It's about time GLASS actually did
something like this. I've been saying that some kind of
headline-grabbing direct action is needed. It's just a pity that
it's too little to late but perhaps we can save something
anyway...
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Re: Peak District August Bank Holiday
By: craigderby Date: September 5, 2012, 4:23 pm
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I'm on their forum, so I'll post up when any new details come
along
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Re: Peak District August Bank Holiday
By: AllanI Date: September 6, 2012, 3:10 am
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The consultation period has started for 2 more familiar lanes to
be TRO'd. Cherpit lane is the one into Great Longstone that
featured on the TV program and Brushfield which is the one over
from Taddington to Monsal Dale. You can raise your objections to
the PDNPA prior to October 5th.
Allan
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