18th
February 2007
COMMENT
Dear Editor
How many
more times do I have to write this? Keighley Road is NOT,
as some would have you believe, a rough moorland track. The route
across Ilkley Moor is A
COUNTY ROAD, part of the Queen’s Highway. If you
don’t believe me contact Mr John Robinson - Highways Officer, at
Jacobs Well in Bradford. Parking on single track roads and blocking
them to other road users is down right selfish and against the law.
Why are
these people walking their animals on such sensitive parts of the
South Pennine SSSI? Do they not realise their dogs are running free
through areas of ground nesting birds? Are they so thick and
arrogant to think themselves above the law? Or couldn’t they care
a damn? It’s drivers like these who bring the worst out in country
folk. Thanks to you and others like you, folks who use real 4x4s for
their work are being penalised.
When will
these people get it through their thick heads animals are best
walked? Not ferried around in gas guzzling so-called 4x4s. I have
no time for the likes of you. NONE!
Like the cyclist I too have found these people arrogant, ill
mannered and threatening. If they acted the same in town the Police
would have them for dangerous driving. Respect for the Countryside
includes respect for other road users. Why is it so difficult for
present day users of both to be more courteous to others?
Until
re-cycling my car I used Keighley Road weekly over a twenty year
period. Even after it was damaged by heavy rain. All, apart from
one, were saloon cars large and small. There was no need for gas
guzzling so-called 4x4s. Instead of wasting money on city centre
duck ponds, Keighley Road should be resurfaced in a manner befitting
a County Road.
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