Hi Tim C - you are always brilliant at using your 4x4 to help others. I was out walking for my daily coronavirus bout of exercise yesterday evening and came across motorists needing a little high altitude help!
There was traffic chaos on the summit ridge of Walton Hill (1025 feet) yesterday evening (24 Jan). Only drive your car on bridleways on Walton Hill summit if your journey is essential. The Halesowen bypass was empty but the narrow lanes on Walton Hill were busy and full of fumes and fuming drivers. 4x4s were getting stuck in long queues, past the trig point to try and find their way back down to tarmac. Some were reversing on narrow lanes and footpaths when they met their mates wanting to go in the opposite direction!
Only drive your car on bridleways on Walton Hill summit if your journey is essential. Remember, oil to drive over Nature and to rip up footpaths, bridleways and green lanes will never run out because polluting Automobile Man is top dog and can do what he likes without any consequences.
This is, partly tongue in cheek, of course! My favourite, pathetic attempt to make a more serious point.
ON A SERIOUS NOTE: This is why we need the stricter regulations that would come if we had an official Clent Hills Regional Park over the full 32 sq Kms of our Golden Green Triangle, in the new WMCA W Midlands National Park. The triangle is bounded by M5, A456, A491. Scotland has its Pentland Hills Regional Park on the southern edge of their capital where you don't see the hills abused or over-used. Our unofficial, unregulated, free for all, motoring chaos, Clent Hills should be similarly off-road to off-roaders.
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