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The Ridgeway is an ancient highway, used by travellers for thousands of years. It is certain that when it was regularly used by horse and ox drawn carts that the surface was much worse than it is now.
Most of the damage is due to poor drainage and this can be easily rectified using some of the taxes already levied on the vehicle users.
The people pushing for a right to roam appear to want to deny this right to everybody except walkers. If you do not like vehicles, or horses, or cyclists, please stay on the footpaths. Of course many of these are overgrown because they are not used enough!
Instead of making law abiding citizens in to criminals it would be better if the untaxed, uninsured and under-age drivers and riders were stopped - but it does seem that the police cannot prevent this on housing estates let alone the Ridgeway.
Finally, motorcycles do no more damage than horses. It is agricultural machinery that does most of the damage. Why not have a 20mph speed limit and a one tonne weight limit in Winter.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road