Traffic and transport
Even on a February day a hundred thousand journeys are made by people who live or work in the North York Moors, or who visit the area for business or pleasure. The milk tanker and school bus, the doctor and vet, the postvan and cattle feed truck, timber vehicles and bread vans, journeys to work or to hospital, to collect groceries or barbed wire, to visit friends or just to enjoy the views. Life would not be possible in this remote area without the various types of transport which are used on these journeys.
To this traffic must be added recreational journeys: during the month of August visitors spend over a million days in the North York Moors.
Little wonder that many local people have expressed great concern about the impact some of these journeys have on the environment, on social and economic life, and on the special qualities which make this area so important for each one of us.
In the 1991 survey of residents, traffic was seen as the major disadvantage from tourism in the area. The key message emerging from the responses to the questionnaire in November 1996 seeking comment on the future of the National Park is that increased traffic poses a great threat to the special qualities of the area.
- For further information contact us or telephone Michael Graham or Janet Armstrong at the National Park Office, Helmsley, 01439 770657.
