National Green Lane Day

Every year LARA member organisations take part in National Green Lane Day. This was a LARA initiative, whereby the recreational motorist can put back a little something into the system, but is now managed by GLASS. Visit the GLASS web site.

To give an idea of what can be achieved in 2005 a NGLD event in Hampshire cleared an unclassified road that had become all but impassable, to all users, due to decades of neglect. At the beginning of the day no horse or cycle could pass along the lane but by the end of the day the surface was cleared back to the ditches, the hedges were once again 'hedge-like' and even the puddles were drying up. Over a kilometre of lane cleared to the full width, open to sun and wind, and with views across adjoining fields.

Across the country ditches have been cleared, obstructions removed, surfaces reinstated, culverts constructed. Not only is this all good fun, it saves highway authorities a few bob and returns lanes to all users, where hitherto only the hardy (or is that fool-hardy) would venture.

Keen to organise an event of your own? Check out the GLASS NGLD web site.