Check your facts. Almost all, certainly the majority, of damage to green roads is done by farmers and forestry vehicles - and almost all the repairs are done by recreational vehicular users. Historically roads used by carts were pounded to swamps, and if you think a vehicle can make a mess, stop and inspect how deep a morass horses can create.

Eliminating historic rights for the pleasure of a bunch of wearers of goat-hair socks, who want the roads not to the standards of history but in the form of some fairytale fantasy is simply middle-class nimbyism and worse.

The recreational green-road driver knows full well - as slow as possible, only as fast as absolutely necessary. The non-stopping is a myth. Many's the time I would stop and reverse, to somewhere I could turn off my engine entirely, to let horses pass. Unlike farmers we know that we should tread lightly.