Thompsons track area

[lincooln]

I do believe it all comes down to Rights and Responsibilities. You can not have all rights and no responsibilities.

Yes you have a right to access, but you also have the responsibilities to look after your area, look after the tracks, treat the area and locals with respect etc.

Otherwise you just look like the spoiled little brats that are today's kids. Least that what has been taught to me.

[daynehrn]

Maybe it's sometimes easy to forget that Councils also do maintainance on some (all?) of these tracks, so while I guess you could go pulling gates open how long would it be before slips closed them indefinately anyway?

Also I would guess that some of the time they shut the tracks they may have to as they could be found liable under our wonderful legal system if someone was to hurt themselves.

I think the best way forward is not to treat councils as the enemy, we need to talk to these people to ensure they have all the sides of the story, (more than just tyre size) and do our best to comply with what at this stage are pretty reasonable requests.

[Stage1V8]

Ive been around enough forums to know whats what.

Here is the definition of what a forum is:
A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

Now im exchanging mine and you obviously dont like it TJ. Get over it.

From what i have seen the current system isn't working therefore 4wders are NOT benefitting. Was the wrong direction taken in fighting the powers? I think so. Had they been stood up to and told that we will not accept what they propose from the beginning then more tracks maybe open.

Instead of planting a few trees in exchange for a meeting with cucumber sandwiches and sausage rolls.

The current system HAS failed. Its time to fight!