SCRAP THE VEHICLES TRASHING THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY NEAR OAK LANE, KINSGSWINFORD DY6

This time, on Monday 24 March 2025, I saw two 4x4s and a further vehicle on the Ordnance Survey, Explorer map, named "traffic free" route for cycles, walkers and horse riders running alongside Oak Lane Caravan Park and the two scrapyards, all three on the north side of Oak Lane, Kingswinford DY6.

These vehicles churn up untarmacked surfaces to make them unusable by walkers, cyclists and horse riders for whom the path is intended.  This is the lawless, unpoliced, wild west of Dudley borough, the historic capital of the bleak, barren, backward Black Country.

This same 20 Kms Black Country Active Travel Route is tarmacked 2 Kms further north in Wombourne and so is well used.

Individuals must stand up for what really matters.  Our right to walk, cycle and horse ride exactly where we are meant to go.

The Police must confiscate and scrap these vehicles and, on every occasion a vehicle is reported on the cycle-walkway.  Much better, they must attend every day until the lawless get the message.  And the drivers must put right their damage to the public highway surface (or pay) - along the whole, long section.

Perhaps, allow dirt/quad bikers, 4x4s to access the vast Himley Quarry Landfill hills, aka Himley Environmental and Biffa Waste on Google Maps.  But, ONLY from the Crooked House Lane on the north side and, from the south, via the tunnel to Home Farm DY3 4DE, under the cycle-walkway from Oak Lane DY6.

NOTE on Public Right of Way status on the Dudley Definitive Map

The road via the tunnel (under the bridge) to Home Farm is a "Restricted Byway" on the Dudley MBC Definitive Map.

A very small part of the Dudley section of the Black Country Active Travel Route is Public Right of Way BRH0008 and, therefore, an official "public footpath".  This is at the 'dogleg' section where the two old railway lines meet.  This Public Right of Way (PROW) has long been a linear mudbath caused by the dirt and quad bikers and the 4x4s on a route that should be restricted to being a Public Right of Way (PROW) and be given a National Cycle Network number over the full 20 Kms from Fens Pool Avenue to NW Wolverhampton.