Visitor access and transport in the National Park: cracking an age-old problem? - Alistair Kirkbride

Is it a reaction to Covid lockdowns? Or maybe just social trends are shifting, but important changes are happening to the way visitor transport is managed in rural areas. Some places are ‘just getting on with it’, such as communities in the Lake District and the Hope Valley.

Meanwhile, headlines from Snowdonia/Eryri about fines for badly parked visitor cars are ‘serves them right’, and the public reaction to enforcement has been muted.

So, what's going on? Are people taking back control? Where's the geography in all of this? Is it an indicator of change in our relationship with these special landscapes? And what might the near future hold?

Sustainable transport expert, Alistar Kirkbride, uses stories, images and evidence gathered from across Europe during his Churchill Fellowship to explore this important and contentious topic.

About the speaker

Alistair Kirkbride is a sustainable travel expert based in the Lake District who was the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship to explore visitor access to rural areas and National Parks across Europe.

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