Active Travel DOES include horses

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For those of you working on increased horse riding access routes, and the money being put into Active Travel schemes, I would like to highlight that Active Travel DOES include horses - previously it was thought to only apply to walkers and cyclists.

There is an Active Travel England "Route Check User Manual" page 29 footnote 4 "Horse riding is explicitly included included in active travel: House of Commons Transport Committee Active Trave: increasing levels of walking and cycling in England Eleventh Report of Session 2017-19 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report (London 2019): "Active travel covers any journey that is made by physically active means, and covers such diverse activities as horse riding, skateboarding, roller skating and riding a scooter." p6

Thank you to the hard working volunteers who have been in the background on this, and thanks to the Horse Access Facebook group that has brought this to everyone's attention.
 
Look on the Horse Access facebook group, which is where I found it. I don't know how to link/share things, I'm sorry.

There are some very keen and knowledgeable people involved in Horse Access who have devoted years to help riders with access.

It is in the Active Travel England "Route Check User Manual" that you can download, which is where my quote came from.
 
Meredith said:
I've tried to access the Active Travel website. The result is
This website cannot be found
or
This website took too long
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I can access it but there doesn't appear to be anything about horses in there, except the Highway Code.

The Horse Access Campaign UK is a private FB group, so I can't see it, and there's no point sharing links to private groups because no one else can see them either. I'll keep looking.
 
I found the Active Travel information without trouble. I suppose for the Horse Access page you have to apply to join?

A contributor on the Horse Access facebook page posted the reference, but it wouldn't let me copy and past it, hence I copied the above quote from the Active Travel England handbook, as above. It is
48 pages long! The reference is in a footnote on page 29.

Hope this helps.
 
Orangehorse said:
I found the Active Travel information without trouble. I suppose for the Horse Access page you have to apply to join?

A contributor on the Horse Access facebook page posted the reference, but it wouldn't let me copy and past it, hence I copied the above quote from the Active Travel England handbook, as above. It is
48 pages long! The reference is in a footnote on page 29.

Hope this helps.
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Thanks! I'll see if I can find the handbook and screenshot the footnote.
 
I had a look through it, and it comes across as only mentioning horses because they have to, seeing as horses can also use some public ROWs. Other than that, it's all cycling, wheeling and walking. If they ever did go ahead with the whole plan, it very much sounds like there will be bridleways getting paved over for the above users.
 
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