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etyres Green Policy takes a stand against Green Lane
Cowboys
10Jan07 The UK’s leading on-line tyre supplier today
announced it’s opposition to Green Lane Cowboys. These
are off-road 4x4 drivers and riders of motocross and
scramble bikes who take delight in tearing Britain’s
Green Lanes to pieces. Turning them into impassable seas
of mud and damaging local flora.
etyres fully supports genuine off road driving where it
is needed to access remote rural areas or to engage in
outdoor activities. However these genuine off-roaders
are being brought into disrepute by the Green Lane
Cowboys who continue to cause massive damage to age old
country byways.
A case study of the fight against this senseless
destruction involves The Ridgeway which runs from
Avebury in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe, near Tring in
Buckinghamshire. This ancient rural path runs through
Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
It remained unspoiled for centuries and was enjoyed by
countless numbers of ramblers, walkers and horse riders.
Until the 4x4 and the dirt-bike evolved.
Then, in a few short years many parts of the path
became impassable, except to the Green Lane Cowboys.
Fortunately the case was taken up by various user groups
who succeeded in having unfettered vehicular access
removed so that 4x4s and off road motorbikes are now
banned in most stretches of the path during winter
months.
Other areas of the UK are not so fortunate. Many local
authorities are apathetic to the damage that an
inconsiderate few are doing to the countryside. We
encourage everyone who has enjoyed the use of any of
Britain’s Green Lanes to write to their Local Authority
and to their MP about the nuisance that is still being
caused by the Green Lane cowboys.
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