Don't hold back folks! Horses/motorway bridge parapets

[ldlp111]

I too am shocked by the comments made on the website for the newspaper

and I keep my horse in Taunton

and yes I have met quite a few people who don't even acknowledge you exist

Beginning to think my days of riding on roads around me are limited

especially when they put a main road right at top of my field

. The roads nowadays are so dangerous

Yes there is lots of fields to ride in but we aren't allowed to just wander onto anyones land

unfortunatley

Do these people think fields are just there for them to walk in and to make the place look pretty

to farmers they are part of their business and they don't appreciate people riding in there churning them up etc

I have a couple fields that a farmer actually lets riders on

but I have to cross a motorway bridge to get there

but luckily my horse is very calm and good with traffic

it's the invisible things that are terrifying

 

[Pedantic]

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TBH if I expected someone else to cater to every potentially dangerous situation resulting from the actions of other people then my taxes would be sky high...

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Good grief we agree on something...wait what is that I hear...faint sounds of cracking as hell feezes over

In respect of the work being done to reinforce our central reservations and bridges for the 42 tonners. Surely Artics crash into motorway reservations on at least an annual basis? So they will need to ensure the roads can cope with such crashs. People falling from horse over bridge onto motorway on the other hand is probably as likely as you getting killed by p*ssing into the wind over a metal fence during a lightning storm! Yes it may happen but it's a risk you just have to take.

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Oooooh, have to try that, sounds like fun

 

[ester]

let us know how you get on...

 

[LauraWheeler]

How vile those people are. Just shows there ignorance.
I don't drive but i'm shore road tax doesn't go twords maintaining the road.
Taken from the tax guide web site.
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DVLA road tax and fuel duty both end up in the coffers of the Exchequer, along with your income tax and companies' corporation tax. Council parking fees, along with the Congestion Charge if you live in London, are paid to the Local Authority, and are topped up by council tax and a subsidy from central government.

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It's your counsil tax that helps maintain the roads and most horse owners pay this. Also horses actualy do have right of way on the road because they don't have breaks

(Sorry if this has been pointed out already but i haven't got time to read all the pages of comments

) But i just tell anyone who maons that i don't pay road tax that i don't need the road infact tear them all up and turn them into nice grass canter streaches thats what i say

 

[Angua2]

QR, if the bridges over the M25 can have high barriers, why can't that one.

Some of the comments on the paper website are unbeliveable

 

[Doublethyme]

Awful comments on the paper, but not surprising. Every time I've ever read comments attached to a paper article, they have been that kind of bizarre vitriolic attack, doesn't matter what the subject. I think they just attract the saddos.

Does make me so thankful I keep my horse on the South Downs were I don't do roads at all and the Estate that owns most of the land I ride on, is brilliant about rights of way etc.

May be owned by "stuck up toffs" as they would no doubt be labelled by the unwashed masses, but they know how to land manage and keep access good for everyone. Just hoping that its conversion into a National Park isn't going to attract the liberal bunny hugging idiots who start interfering with the access routes.

 

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TauntonBloke29, doesn't seem to be putting up much of a constructive argument on my posting.

 

[ester]

That would be normal for Taunton blokes that are 29

 

[diamonddogs]

I can't decide if you people who ride over these bridges are brave or foolhardy!

TBH I'm of the opinion that society today expects everyone seems to forget that their own health and safety is in their own hands (more often than not). If you're not comfortable riding over, what's so bad about getting off and leading? I know I would if I had to, but then I even have problems riding over low bridges over streams if they don't have a decent parapet! And I can't even walk over a motorway without wanting to scream!

I think I'm leaving this debate now, because my stomach turns over at the thought of a rider or horse or both together falling over on to a motorway or railway, regardless of whether there's any traffic passing under it, and also at the thought of being a driver minding my own business and suddenly a human and/or horse falling in front of me.