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The British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF) has stepped up its lobbying of MPs and Lords in an effort to stop the natural environment and rural communities bill (NERC bill) from being passed in its current form.

The BMF claims that the NERC bill, which will stop motorcyclists in natural parks from using trails not officially registered as a right of way (RoW), will in fact make many unrecorded but legitimate RoWs unavailable to vehicular traffic.

It warns that this will do nothing to prevent the nuisance-use of byways and common land, and is in fact the first step in denying law-abiding motorists access to many of the countryside's roads.

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BMF spokesman Jeff Stone said: "This bill is only the start for those who wish to see the legitimate use of motorcycles banned from our county side - both off and on tarmac.

"Moves by the Council for the Preservation for Rural England to persuade the Department of Transport into finally producing the Guidance for Quiet Lanes may seem innocuous, but this could well contain ideas such as blanket 20mph speed limits or the use of Traffic Regulation Orders to ban motor vehicles from such Quiet Lanes."

The BMF has proposed as an alternative to this legislative change the better policing of existing laws, rather than blanket persecution of all motorists.

It has also called for the creation of a RoW policy that will allow access to a proper connected network, rather than the broken routes it claims are currently in place.

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