Just caught up and I'm highly amused to see more of the professionally entitled out.
You want to campaign for reasonable adjustments for wheelchair users and I'm right on board. Maybe dividing the path could be a solution. But preventing riders from fully accessing a space is not a reasonable adjustment.
There's a place near me where the pony trekking is subsidising the space/ facilities for everyone else. Should they hike the price so every ride is accompanied by a shit collector? Or maybe stop the trekking so only the agile and able bodied can scramble along an unmaintained path?
What about riding schools/ the rda? Bump the price to cover shit collection?
Horses shouldn't be on pavements or anywhere else they aren't legally allowed. And if they are (usually because of ignorant drivers) then with rare exception should be dismounting and kicking it to the road. But until the time people follow the highway code around horses it's not hard to see why sometimes a responsible rider might be forced on the pavement and unable to immediately dismount to kick poo aside.
Yes, there are entitled, stupid riders. And plenty who couldn't dismount due to inexperience, rather than a valid reason. But there are arseholes in every group of society.
The wheelchair user complaining a footpath through a field of cows isn't accessible isn't representative of the entire disabled community and the genuine lack of reasonable adjustments.
The entitled and deluded pfb parent complaining about non issues, such as horse shit on a path open to riders isn't representative of parents.
Idiot riders aren't representative either.
Oh, also loving the irony of horse riders being rich snobs. Understandable from someone who believes any disposable income makes a person rich. But on a forum where the vast majority have large disposable incomes and spend large amounts on a high quality of life it is incredibly funny.