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Someone i know has just posted this on facebook. Is anyone going?
SAVING THE PEAK DISTRICT GREEN LANES: Back to Tarmac
I've lifted this from the West Wales Laning (WWL) group's Facebook page, but it relates to the Peak District and the Back to Tarmac campaign. If you're thinking about going, please contact Dale Wyatt on the WWL page.
The Peak and Derbyshire Vehicle Users Group (PDVUG) is an umbrella group representing the national organisations of the TRF, GLASS and LARA together with a number of local groups of trail riders and 4x4 drivers.
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We are engaged in a battle with the Peak District National Park to keep the green lanes open for our use, fighting against the Park’s policy of yielding to the pressure of local people and closing the best lanes to recreational vehicles through the use of TROs.
Three days of action called ‘Back to Tarmac’ are planned between now and the New Year, on Sundays: 21 October, 25 November and 30 December. Please come and spend a day in the Peak District and whilst you are here, join us in making our presence felt (legally and orderly but with as many vehicles as possible) in a few key villages in the Peak.
The objective is to encourage local residents, who are unaware of the issue, to contact the Peak Park and lobby on our behalf for the lanes to be kept open to enable us to avoid clogging the ordinary roads.
The idea is that if enough recreational bikes and vehicles are driving about at ‘lane speeds’, stopping and parking-up on the tarmaced roads, filling car parks and generally being very visible in village centres, then it will highlight to the local people the impact of closing the lanes and moving us all onto the roads. By ‘lane speeds’ we mean demonstrating clearly the voluntary code of conduct by driving on the ordinary roads slowly at a similar speed to that you would on a lane, in groups of 4 vehicles or 6 bikes.Our first Back to Tarmac day on 21 October is less than 2 weeks away. We plan to meet up at Ashford-in-the-Water (1.5 miles west of Bakewell just off the A6) near the octagonal shelter by the church (grid ref SK 194 696) from around 10.00am, where we will be providing notices for rear windows of 4x4s and tabards for trail riders to explain our situation to following drivers. Our suggestion is for groups to drive a circuit around some of the key villages:
Leave Ashford on the A6020, head for Great Longstone - Little Longstone (Monsal Head) - north to Wardlow - Foolow - Grindlow - Great Hucklow - Little Hucklow - head north on minor road - after 0.25 mile turn east at grid ref SK 161 790 - B6049 to Bradwell - Brough - east on A6187 to Hathersage - there turn south on B6001 - after 0.7 mile turn west on minor road to Leadmill & Abney - through Gt Hucklow (again) - south to Tideswell on B6049 - Millers Dale - Blackwell - cross the A6 loop through Taddington - Bakewell via the A6.
SAVING THE PEAK DISTRICT GREEN LANES: Back to Tarmac
I've lifted this from the West Wales Laning (WWL) group's Facebook page, but it relates to the Peak District and the Back to Tarmac campaign. If you're thinking about going, please contact Dale Wyatt on the WWL page.
The Peak and Derbyshire Vehicle Users Group (PDVUG) is an umbrella group representing the national organisations of the TRF, GLASS and LARA together with a number of local groups of trail riders and 4x4 drivers.
...
We are engaged in a battle with the Peak District National Park to keep the green lanes open for our use, fighting against the Park’s policy of yielding to the pressure of local people and closing the best lanes to recreational vehicles through the use of TROs.
Three days of action called ‘Back to Tarmac’ are planned between now and the New Year, on Sundays: 21 October, 25 November and 30 December. Please come and spend a day in the Peak District and whilst you are here, join us in making our presence felt (legally and orderly but with as many vehicles as possible) in a few key villages in the Peak.
The objective is to encourage local residents, who are unaware of the issue, to contact the Peak Park and lobby on our behalf for the lanes to be kept open to enable us to avoid clogging the ordinary roads.
The idea is that if enough recreational bikes and vehicles are driving about at ‘lane speeds’, stopping and parking-up on the tarmaced roads, filling car parks and generally being very visible in village centres, then it will highlight to the local people the impact of closing the lanes and moving us all onto the roads. By ‘lane speeds’ we mean demonstrating clearly the voluntary code of conduct by driving on the ordinary roads slowly at a similar speed to that you would on a lane, in groups of 4 vehicles or 6 bikes.Our first Back to Tarmac day on 21 October is less than 2 weeks away. We plan to meet up at Ashford-in-the-Water (1.5 miles west of Bakewell just off the A6) near the octagonal shelter by the church (grid ref SK 194 696) from around 10.00am, where we will be providing notices for rear windows of 4x4s and tabards for trail riders to explain our situation to following drivers. Our suggestion is for groups to drive a circuit around some of the key villages:
Leave Ashford on the A6020, head for Great Longstone - Little Longstone (Monsal Head) - north to Wardlow - Foolow - Grindlow - Great Hucklow - Little Hucklow - head north on minor road - after 0.25 mile turn east at grid ref SK 161 790 - B6049 to Bradwell - Brough - east on A6187 to Hathersage - there turn south on B6001 - after 0.7 mile turn west on minor road to Leadmill & Abney - through Gt Hucklow (again) - south to Tideswell on B6049 - Millers Dale - Blackwell - cross the A6 loop through Taddington - Bakewell via the A6.
