rob90 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Suspend-NERC/#detail Apologies if this has been posted before, a long standing petition - April 2008 - perhaps a bit long but gone from 58 to 115 in 24 hrs. The petition is : "This section of the act extinguished motor vehicle rights from "restricted byways". The effect has been to close half the rights of way previously open to motor vehicles. Motor vehicles may now only use "byways open to all traffic", only 2% of all rights of way. Many of these are effectively closed to motor vehicles as they are classed as restricted byways for part their length. Motor vehicles, therefore, can use substantially less than the 4,500km of rights of way quoted by the government. Rather than reduce the potential for conflict of use, noise nuisance or damage, the act may have the opposite effect as it concentrates recreational vehicle use on a smaller number of rights of way. Early commencement of the legislation has left many rights of way incorrectly recorded and led to the loss of motor vehicle rights over many historic routes. Suspending Section 6 would allow highways authorities, user groups and individuals to apply to reclassify these as "byways open to all traffic", ensuring that their status is correctly recorded. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FITZ4X4 Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 This must be worth pinning this at the top for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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