There is no great necessity to protect verges outside the metalled part of the road.
Under those circumstances, if motor vehicles use them, have the public authority power to close such roads if they are not metalled roads?
Yet there are only 2,000 miles of railway and 2,000 miles of metalled roads.
They were either brought up on the carriers or were on the metalled roads themselves.
In using the term "public rights of way" it is also intended to exclude metalled roads, which are the proper concern of existing highway authorities.
It is a common sight throughout the country today to see footpaths being made up with a tarmacadam metalled surface.
The cause of the problem is usually a housing development or the creation, widening, or re-cambering of metalled highways.
The road is only partially metalled, and is heavy after rain.
