Public Transport and Paths

Transport Use and Paths

Sparsely trodden paths, use of public transport

This General Council, with the purpose of combining walking for enjoyment with the Ramblers objective of protecting footpaths, urges Groups to include in their walks programmes as many walks as possible within their own Group boundaries in order to facilitate the use and monitoring of sparsely trodden paths and also encourage the use of public transport.

Rights of way improvement plans/local transport plans

This Council welcomes the government’s proposal that rights of way improvement plans shall be included into local transport plans from 2005 onwards. In order to ‘make them as beneficial as possible to the walking public’ it urges Ramblers Areas and Groups to familiarise themselves with the joint report by the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Countryside Agency, Rural Routes and Networks, and to use the excellent advice contained therein when contributing to the development of both rights of way improvement plans and local transport plans.