Big Idea

Blacka Blogger worries about our National Park. Well all of them actually. He thinks there's something desperately wrong about the vision for our great countryside areas. There's a defeatism, a lack of vision and too much compromise about them and too many people who find they're making a comfortable enough living in and around them to make enough of a stir about the things that really matter. Yes even in the 'professionals', especially among the professionals those who work at PDNPA and NE and all the other semi detached organisations and bureaucracies.

National Parks should be special places yet they aren't special enough. There's been an erosion over time of the best aspects of them and an inability to force through the right decisions. They will continue to decline however much money is spent unless someone grasps the whole idea and says that they are nothing to do with the economy and business but are places where we can be free from such squalid matters as making money. Return to the ideas of peace and beauty. Oh dear how unfashionable they will say.

Let's make a start and let's wait for all the vested interested squealers to speak out. Roads: no road should have a speed limit over 40 mph. You're in a national park for goodness sake why speed through it? Look where you are and enjoy it. Speed is the enemy of peace and beauty. Next minor roads should be reduced to 20 mph. Why? so people can actually walk and cycle on them as used to be the case.

There's too much nonsense talked about welcoming all to these places whcih seems to involve tolerating any new gimmick infested and intrusive new activity that comes along.

Here endeth.......