GLASS wrote:

Dear GLASS member

No matter where you live almost every green laner and trail rider has heard of Happy Valley, Carn March Arthur, The Wayfarer and Horseshoe. These are some of the most iconic green lanes in the UK, but damage has been caused by those who choose to act outside the responsible green laning community. This, coupled with the impact of weather and water erosion, has left local authorities with some hefty repair bills they simply cannot cover - so we need to take steps to bring these important routes back to their former glory.

Over winter GLASS have been busy forming plans with Denbigh, Wrexham and Gwynedd County Councils, Snowdonia National Park Authority and local landowners – now it’s time for action!

GLASS are going to help fund these large projects which include:

Helicoptering hundreds of tons of stone to repair Happy Valley and Carn March Arthur
Bridge repairs, sleeper section maintenance, drainage improvement, signage and off-piste solutions on the Wayfarer
Signage and drainage improvement along the full length of Horseshoe
We’ll be digging into our fighting fund to complete each project, but the shortfall needs to be covered by donations. Money raised will be ring-fenced for these projects and any excess used for future maintenance on the routes.

Our crowdfunding page can be found here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/greenlaneassociation (Please note that during the process donations to JustGiving are optional)

A project overview and future ongoing updates can be found here: https://www.glass-uk.org/help-save-our-iconic-welsh-lanes.html

With your help we can ensure that some of the most well-known lanes in the UK are preserved for us all to drive for years to come.

Finally, don't forget to pass the link to donate onto any green laners you know.

Many thanks for your support....

Tristan Craddock / Membership & IT Team

The Green Lane Association
0800 0437844
www.glass-uk.org

lynalldiscovery wrote:

The problem is the non law abiding will just carry on doing what they are still doing, making a mess and getting the lanes shut, quite a few in Kent gone over the last few years.

They are ; we must be better than them.

Alas, there is no sense of personal responsibility these days, i.e., "I have the absolute right to do what I want. Someone else can sort out any problems". On a recent rip to Wales, we watched lots of white Transit vans congregate in a layby, quadbikes emerged from them or their trailers and proceeded to rip-up a footpath. Chances of getting caught? B**ger all.

I spent quite a while talking to a Rural Crime copper last week. They are overstretched and people dog-baiting and badger-baiting for the benefit of Asian gamblers are at the top of their list - they simply have neither the time nor resources to address 4x4 hooligans. On a trip round Salisbury Plain last year, one of the attendees had given up green-laning elsewhere after balaclava-wearing thugs stoned his vehicle.

This is the most intolerant 'tolerant' country I know.

(See also morons with quadcopters, morons with fireworks, morons with laser-pens, morons with the internet, morons with 1.2l Corsas and four exhausts...)

Ray Clayton wrote:

yea i had same come down.
Up the Derbyshire peaks yesterday and you can see places that people are still messing around.
After 32 years of laning in Derbyshire and most parts of the country, you will never stop the idiots am affraid.

Browny90 wrote:

The Derbyshire Rural Crime Team are working hard around me, having specific days to search for quads and bike using the lanes illegally and stupidly. 9/10 times the bikes are unregistered and thus illegal to drive on a BOAT or otherwise.

They've invested in 4x4's, Bikes, Quads and Drones to help combat it

Hi Browny.

The team have have joint days with South Yorks, and Notts Police.
As well as there normal Blackbrook operation in Derbyshire.
Came across them all at Clumber Park a fortnight back, while at the Caravan Club site.
They all met at 10am with LR 90 painted black, and red off road bikes.

Ray

mark the spark wrote:

hopefully the new 20,000 police will mean we can get back to some sort of pro active policing

its becoming the wild west out there the scum bags are running riot.

20 yrs ago if you went out with a headlight out you wouldnt get 5 miles without being pulled over

now one car in 10 seems to have a obvious defect but nothing is ever done unless they have an accident