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What do the tracks do that a paved highway doesn't do?
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Erode. Just look at the difference, over time, of a paved road, or a designed & maintained (even if not very often) dirt road, and one of those tracks. The road will stay much the same, the track will, as I said before, turn into an eroded gully - at which point the off-highway drivers will likely make a new track a few yards to one side. Over the years, the process gets repeated until you have not much left but tracks.
At least around here, most of those closed roads you complain about are in fact just such trackways, created by casual use rather than design. There are almost always easy alternative routes that will get you to the same destination. The people who complain about the closures generally don't use them as roads, they use them as raceways. They're not trying to get somewhere, they just want to drive around in circles, and would get just as much enjoyment & escape from a video game.
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But have you ever considered what your city looked like 400 years ago?
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My city? What makes you think I live in a city?
In fact, the place where I happen to live has been inhabited - used as a living place & workshop - for a good many centuries. I can, if you like, show you the flakes discarded from stone tool making that I've dug up in my garden. The folks who lived here then didn't do much to change the land, and I can't see that I have either.
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Now it's asphalt and a-holes, as far as the eye can see.
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Can't say that I disagree, but does that mean I have to act like one, just to fit in?
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We sure as heck have no right to blame the Hummers of the world, how many are there exactly?
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Sure we do, because we can see exactly what the Hummers & ATVs and such are doing. Of course that doesn't absolve anyone else for the consequences of their actions, but claiming "Johnny does it too!" is the sort of excuse you'd expect from a 6-year old kid.