Madasmaz
Well-Known Member
Hmmm...this is one for those anti-WI types. Locally there are 2 bridleway groups...one is a registered charity the other not. Both are run by WI types, and while they have been effective, over the past two years bun fight issues and one-up-manship have been the rule of the day...not getting new routes....which apparently is their raison d'etre.
Anyway, I moved to a yard...which one senior member of one group had slagged off. I have since discovered YO is a member of the other group...can you see where I'm going....as I am no longer a member of either group (who likes being told where they can ride, or who's fund raising events you can attend when things are put on that you want to go and see) I asked if they could both or either do something about the yard having access to already provided permitted riding that we are cut off from via a major trunk road that is about to be restricted to 7.5T. As a matter of interest I also contacted TROTS. SHOOT ME DOWN IN FLAMES, NAIL ME TO A CROSS and LET ME BURN....yes they got really stroppy when I pointed out that if they couldn't get us a route one way..we would get a route another way.
Now I'm all for getting bridleways re-opened, and new bridleways put in place, but having spoken to TROTS I now question the means I have witnessed by which these routes are cajoaled out of the landowners. Surely a landowner has the right to determine, where and when a new route is being put in as to how he is compensated for allowing people onto his land...not be dictated to by a charity and a group of women...no matter how formidable their jam making be. Can jam jars explode?
I have paid a permit to ride in various places over the years, depending on where I have lived, for the last 20 years, some landowners even putting in purpose laid tracks around 80 acre fields for a fee to use it of £30 a year...good value if you ask me.
Anyway, I'm hoping that the blue rinse brigade from both camps get over their hissy fits and attend the yard to speak to all the other owners (20 of them) about getting a route put in so that our "crap" yard can access their committee doorstep riding without having to negotiate idiot city drivers out for a 70mph weekend jaunt...the articulated lorry drivers are brilliant in contrast.
Idiot I maybe...in the interest of fellow riders...most definately, to the exclusion of landowners rights....never!
If it helps...I am not a landowner, I have a pony on livery and have ridden for over 30 years and seen times change on the roads dramtically in the South East and am flabberghasted by the vehicles I see attempting to get up the lanes in Somerset...if they weren't so dangerous it would be hilarious...GPS!!!! Oh and if you want to have a go at me...its nothing I haven't heard in the past and I do so wish people would stop fence building to protect their little territories...its destructive.
Anyway, I moved to a yard...which one senior member of one group had slagged off. I have since discovered YO is a member of the other group...can you see where I'm going....as I am no longer a member of either group (who likes being told where they can ride, or who's fund raising events you can attend when things are put on that you want to go and see) I asked if they could both or either do something about the yard having access to already provided permitted riding that we are cut off from via a major trunk road that is about to be restricted to 7.5T. As a matter of interest I also contacted TROTS. SHOOT ME DOWN IN FLAMES, NAIL ME TO A CROSS and LET ME BURN....yes they got really stroppy when I pointed out that if they couldn't get us a route one way..we would get a route another way.
Now I'm all for getting bridleways re-opened, and new bridleways put in place, but having spoken to TROTS I now question the means I have witnessed by which these routes are cajoaled out of the landowners. Surely a landowner has the right to determine, where and when a new route is being put in as to how he is compensated for allowing people onto his land...not be dictated to by a charity and a group of women...no matter how formidable their jam making be. Can jam jars explode?
I have paid a permit to ride in various places over the years, depending on where I have lived, for the last 20 years, some landowners even putting in purpose laid tracks around 80 acre fields for a fee to use it of £30 a year...good value if you ask me.
Anyway, I'm hoping that the blue rinse brigade from both camps get over their hissy fits and attend the yard to speak to all the other owners (20 of them) about getting a route put in so that our "crap" yard can access their committee doorstep riding without having to negotiate idiot city drivers out for a 70mph weekend jaunt...the articulated lorry drivers are brilliant in contrast.
Idiot I maybe...in the interest of fellow riders...most definately, to the exclusion of landowners rights....never!
If it helps...I am not a landowner, I have a pony on livery and have ridden for over 30 years and seen times change on the roads dramtically in the South East and am flabberghasted by the vehicles I see attempting to get up the lanes in Somerset...if they weren't so dangerous it would be hilarious...GPS!!!! Oh and if you want to have a go at me...its nothing I haven't heard in the past and I do so wish people would stop fence building to protect their little territories...its destructive.
