Dave, you certainly don't need transport to walk round your local area. But for getting to Cumbria? For that you need a car. For that matter, getting to just about any "interesting" walking you need a car. Theres's a difference between a stroll round the park and a hike up Helvellyn (and people who don't think there is are regularly stretchered off the hills by the Mountain Rescue ;-)
I can catch a bus to a national park for £2.90.
From Salford, presumably the Peak District. Last time I was in Castleton, there were four buses a day in Hope Valley IIRC. And trains didn't stop that often. Hope Valley is lucky in that, having both trains and buses. Most isolated areas, it's two buses a day and that's it, and that's if you're lucky and the bus service hasn't been axed.
And what the hell has colour got to do with walking???
In itself, absolutely bugger all. But if you're black or Asian, it does increase the chances that your parents weren't brought up with walking as a pastime, which increases the chances that you weren't. If your parents were white Americans, again there's good odds that walking as a pastime wouldn't have been passed down. It's culture, not colour.
It's not a criticism, it's just an observation. I don't think you would contradict me if I said "you're more likely to play an instrument if your parents were musical", would you? So I don't see why the same shouldn't be equally valid for other activities.
Stop making the ridiculous assumption that only black people are poor or oppressed. It is not only wrong but it is also condescending to black people.
I'm not making that assumption. But I am saying that if you're black, you're more likely to have a lower income and/or live in an inner city than if you were white, just per the stats.