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YIPPEE - RAIN !!!.

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Boggert:
I think chaps we should look at the bigger picture, Marjan is a GLASS rep, therefore by definition someone who is considered responsible by a reputable organisation. Now before you all start jumping around let me have my say :D  :wink:

If you are a GLASS member or not you have to admit the organisation is there to benefit all, you know what we do so I won't go on about it. Area reps do it for nothing! They spend lots their time working to keep ROW's open and fighting for our rights to drive lane others want closed.  We should be thankful there are people around with the knowledge, experience, energy and time to do this. I for one am.

davidlandy:
Rain is good for when u go green laning  :D

it then means that there wont be any dust in air to choke you whilst driving

Sheddy:
Well here's a different take on it for you.

Green lane = unlit road.  The speed limit is 30mph.  If you or anyone else wants to drive it at that speed thats your lookout.  After a bout at Woodlands today I did a local byway.  I very much doubt that my speed went above 15mph on any section, and thats being generous.

At one point there was a chap walking his dog.  I was going slow enough that I stopped about 30 yards away from him without a drama to allow him to bring the dogs under control.  Then, once he had them restrained, I continued on my way giving him a smile and a wave as acknowledgement as I went.  That is my way of doing things.

Regardless of what the weather has been doing, what I was doing was completely legal.  If I had been doing 30mph I would still have been within the letter of the law.

My point is this.
The law is there to be observed.  There is no law in this country to stop me from driving the byway that I drove today unless the local authority deems it necessary.  Even though I drive with care and consideration (I think I do!) it does not give me the right to sit on my moral high ground and dictate to others to do as I do.  The laws are the laws and untill they are changed they will give all of us the pecunary right to behave in a particular manner.

Now, if you think that by not driving the lanes after rainfall you are doing something to preserve that right, you are wrong.  You are feeding the anti's the ammunition they require to pressure for a TRO when the weather turns rough.  If we stop driving any lanes when the weather turns, the anti's take it that there are those amongst the 4x4 fraternity that agree with them and use that to add power to thier arguement.  Thus yyou are adding to thier cause.

If you don't believe me, look at the NERC bill.  Any lane that we cannot prove useage of within a certain time period ceases to have legal recognition as a right of way for vehicles save for legal access which is irrevocable under the Presctiptions Act.

You can sit there at your keyboards passing judgement on those that are persueing that which is thier legal right, but it is those people who are prepared to get off thier bums and do the driving that are preserving your summer passtime.

God forbid, you may get your vehicles muddy in supporting them.

Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Isn't the rain nice and warm? I find it most invigorating and find that it cleanses the soul.

TDi90:
always there to lighten the mood jon!!

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