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2	Charlietrf@aol.com	21	Re: PC for Bill Riley.
3	alan kind [alan@highwaym	20	Re: PC for Bill Riley.
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Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 15:38:40 +0000
From: Peter Bradley <hm50@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: You can rely on NYCC for a good laugh

Greetings all.

I am currently snowed under with bookwork, accounts
and such, and so can't contribute much to the mailing
list.  (I am collecting and reading the mail though).

Having said that, I felt the following little gem
deserved the mailing list's attention:

"County hits back in row over paths" by Brian Dooks:-

Claims that NYCC had the third worst record in England
for maintaining public rights of way have been condemned
as inaccurate and misleading.

The assistant director of the Ramblers Association,
David Beskine, attacked the council during a Free
Your Paths rally at the weekend. Mr Beskine said
"official figures" showed that 44 per cent of footpaths
in North Yorkshire suffered from problems which made
them difficult to use.

However the county's development control manager,
Graham Cressey, said the criticisms were based on
a Ramblers Association survey, which was carried out
in 1994 and covered only a 5 per cent sample.

Mr Cressey is responsible for rights of way in
the biggest county in England, with 5,500 miles
of roads and 4,000 miles of footpaths and bridle-
ways outside the Yorkshire Dales and North York
Moors National Parks.

The two national parks now function as independent
authorities responsible for their own rights-of-
way maintenance. If they are included in the figures
, as they were in 1994, then there are more than
6,000 miles of footpaths and bridleways in NY.

With such a huge workload and a maintenance
budget of only UKP 80,000, Mr Cressey admits that
the county is not blameless, but he does not accept
that NY should be ranked as the third worst in 
England.

Mr Cressey said:"We accept there are about 17,000
problems relating to footpaths, and these range
from missing signposts to waymarking, the need to
replace stiles and gates, and the obstruction of
some routes."

The CC's own survey indicates that problems exist
in about 20 per cent of parishes in NY. A programme
has been drawn up to deal with the situation, and
the authority is tackling more than 2,000 problems
a year as well as clearing nearly 20 miles of
vegetation that has overgrown rights of way.

Mr Cressey added:"We are trying to get the co-
operation of landowners and farmers, but if
that fails then we have to resort to legal action.
We have successfully brought more than 300
prosecutions against landowners."

In the Warlaby and Picton area, near Northallerton
, the CC has been working with the Ramblers
Association to provide new stiles, waymarking
and route clearance. "But there is still lots
to be done, and that is being accorded a high
priority," added Mr Cressey.

He said the council welcomed the opportunity to
work closely with user groups and landowners
to improve the network of rights of way in NY.

(end of article)

You are forgiven for thinking that I have made all
this up.  Anyone who wants to see the original just
give me your fax number. The storyline is so bad
it could be ported straight across to Emmerdale.

The last paragraph is an absolute howler. I'd 
like to get Cressey and Burns together in the same
room, preferably while the Yorkshire Post were
there: "Now then Mr Cressey, where are these
rights of way that you want to work on with
user groups ?"

Over to you, Brian .................

Have a nice weekend.
Peter Bradley

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From: Charlietrf@aol.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 14:20:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: PC for Bill Riley.

Went into Wilts. Record Office yesterday (to see if a bridleway with a locked
gate and a 'motorcycle trap' was on the the Finance Act Maps - they didn't
have the map, so I'll have to put it on my list of ones to look at next time
I go to the PRO) wherein I discovered Bill Riley doing research on a lane
near Salisbury - using some Railway Plans. When I asked him if he would like
a PC Bill told my that he was happy with just the old word processor he uses,
as he could bearly keep up with what was already on his plate and the
additional distraction of an Internet connection and e-mail was, he felt,
more than he could manage - never mind any additional cost it might incur.
He's already turned down the offers of a PC from others, but when/if his
present word processor does give up the ghost he would be very happy to be
donated some sort of replacement - even if it was a PC.
Has anyone asked Jeremy Atkinson if he could use a PC and modem?

Charlie Morriss.

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Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 21:27:44 +0100
From: alan kind <alan@highwayman.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: PC for Bill Riley.

In message <970523142051_1989618379@emout07.mail.aol.com>,
Charlietrf@aol.com writes
>Went into Wilts. Record Office yesterday (to see if a bridleway with a locked
>gate and a 'motorcycle trap' was on the the Finance Act Maps - they didn't
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>Charlie Morriss.
>From Alan Kind
Bill might be more inclined to take the PC (which I'm sure he and his
work would benefit from) if he thought he wasn't being arm-twisted into
becoming a "fount of knowledge" via e-mail. Should i have a word with
him before the PC is offered aywhere else?

Regards to all
-- 
Alan kind

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