Off Road Petition

[mark g8awo]

Hi Guys n Gals


Just had this email sent to me

This in from Rafe Aldridge...


Save our byways! As you probably know greenlaning is a hot issue in
parliment at the moment. If you want to show your support for keeping byways
open to motorised users then please sign the electronic petition at:
http://www.saveourbyways.org.uk

Obviously this petition is only against one (small) discussion in parliment.
Signing it is not a substitute for writing to your MP and following other
causes of action.

Please pass the message on to all your 4x4/trailbike friends, clubs etc.

--

Regards,

Rafe



However...

STILL please write to your MP about this... See www.glass-uk.org or
www.laragb.org for more information.

Have a look on the glass web page there is more ifo available.
Don't use all the points shown, stick to 3 or 4 of them (5 at the most) or it wont get read. Changing the grammar a little can help make it look less like a copy of a copy sent out with a new signature on...

There is a article in Total off Road worth reading to help the case.



You could even go to www.faxyourmp.com as well
If the bods have there way way you wont even be able to take the dog for a walk soon.....

[marky]

Names of those spoilsports

EDM 380 - Use of Unsurfaced Byways Open to All Traffic by Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (updated)


Tue, 13 Jan 04 House of Commons - Early Day Motion

Summary
EDM 380 was first put down on 8th January 2004 by John Mann

That this House welcomes the Government's proposal to close the legal loophole whereby historical evidence of use by horse and cart, or dedication as a carriageway prior to the invention of the internal combustion engine, can give rise to a claim for a byway open to all traffic which, if successful, allows for use by modern recreational motor vehicles of green lanes and other unsurfaced routes in the countryside; notes existing byways open to all traffic will still be subject to inappropriate and unsustainable use by recreational motor vehicles; is concerned that our most precious countryside in the national parks and areas of outstanding beauty and our national trails such as the Ridgeway continue to suffer appalling damage; and urges the Government to take action forthwith to protect these areas by reclassifying existing unsurfaced byways open to all traffic as restricted byways and issuing better guidance on enforcement to enable the relevant authorities to take swift and effective action where recreational vehicles are being driven illegally.

On 13/1/04 it was signed by:Andrew Rosindell
* 16
Mr Alan Meale Mr James Gray Mr Robert Key
Mr Kevin McNamara Mr Lindsay Hoyle Dr Rudi Vis
Rob Marris Peter Bottomley Mr Edward Garnier
Mr Harold Best


On 12/1/04 it was signed by: Mr Harry Barnes
Jeremy Corbyn
Lynne Jones
Mrs Ann Cryer


On 8/1/04 it was signed by: John Mann

Contents
JOhn Mann Mr Harry Barnes
Jeremy Corbyn
Lynne Jones
Mrs Ann Cryer Andrew Rosindell
* 16
Mr Alan Meale Mr James Gray Mr Robert Key
Mr Kevin McNamara Mr Lindsay Hoyle Dr Rudi Vis
Rob Marris Peter Bottomley Mr Edward Garnier
Mr Harold Best



This is an Early Day Motion urging Parliament to ban motors from all unsealed BOATs. I suggest that all LARA Members within the listed MPs' constutencies might ask their MPs what evidence they have to support this EDM.

NB There is currently research being carried out by the Countryside Agency via consultants Faber Maunsell, to establish to what extent the BOAT network is being 'destroyed' by over-use. Until this research is completed, all the MPs can go on is their own personal observations, and the propaganda of the Antis. Ask if any of them have taken advice from those who use BOATs, from the Governing Bodies, or from the House of Conmmons Rights of Way Review Committee. And if not, why not?

[Gizmo]

Just read a good review in the off road mag where once again a Journalist (Mrs Janet-Street Porter) has been found to write up a biased report in her column about the off-road antics and the damage caused.

I do recall that the said so-called Journalist does like to walk quite a bit and is this the so-called use of influence...I guess so..