Bridleway petition - please spread the word

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(from Essex Bridleways Association):

Dear EBA Member,

There is currently an online petition for more bridleways. However, it is being kept quiet (I think the Government hope people wont find it and sign it so they dont have to do anything about it....). However, Endurance GB have discovered it and published the link in their UK newsletter. It has been spotted and we thought we ought to do something about getting more people to sign it.

I have some details below, which are copied from the EGB magazine:

"The Government is under pressure from riding groups to equal the number of bridleways in the country (currently approx 20,000 miles) up to the same level as footpaths (approx 91,000) miles to help reduce horses on the road/accidents while promoting outdoor activity and safe use of the countryside for all sexes and ages.
This will only happen if people sign the online petition. Please go to

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/15341

to sign and help get riders equal rights to walkers/ramblers".
 
Done, there is a button to use to put a link on facebook and twitter too. I will be doing that later and have asked OH to do the same so that people see it that way too. If everyone passes the petition on to all their horsey/cyclist friends and colleagues, and all of them put a link of FB/Twitter that will help a huge amount.
 
Where do they propose to put these new bridleways? Would you want them imposed on your land grazing? Would rather have what we have made safer especially where they cross roads rail tracks etc
 
mon said:
Where do they propose to put these new bridleways? Would you want them imposed on your land grazing? Would rather have what we have made safer especially where they cross roads rail tracks etc
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I'd be quite happy if some of the footpaths were upgraded to bridlepaths, or some of them were connected up. Where I am there are loads of footpaths but virtually no bridlepaths at all. The ones we do have don't join up so you still have to do road work.
 
I will sign it, but there is another method to create bridleways. See The Trails Trust and Forest of Dean Riders.

There is a book you can buy from the BHS which explains how to do it. The Trails Trust has CREATED 80 NEW BRIDLEPATHS to make circular routes and put in missing links.

The name of the book is "Creating Multi User Public Rights of Way - A Guide for Local Groups" by Rachel Thompson. The publication of the book was supported by Natural England and DEFRA.
 
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