That this Council of the Ramblers deplores the failure of almost all highway authorities to carry out their statutory duties in making sure that field edge paths are left unploughed and that paths across fields are reinstated after statutory ploughing. This Council calls upon its Area and Group organisations to oppose diversions to field edges where their local highway authority does not carry out the above statutory obligations.
That this Council resolves that making a tractor line across a ploughed field is not sufficient to define the correct routes of a public right of way.
(a) It does not differentiate the public path set of tracks from other tractor lines in the same field.
(b) In wet conditions it is impossible to walk in tractor ruts which in any case are not the correct width for a cross-field path.
