As this is on my doorstep i'll comment.
Fair do's we don't want them ripping up paths that people need to use, and maybe that is the case with these two paths in question, so let's close them and give them somewhere else to go rather than banning them.
Let's have a bit of tolerance for each other eh, relocation and education is what's needed here, not banning people from doing what they enjoy. i guess those that own the land EKLB stands on would rather not have people there but they tolerate us.

As for making them walk, have you not seen the erosion us hikers cause of some of the more popular paths ? and you can include Britain's 3 largest mountains in that, ffs just look at the train up Snowdon for example, but we aren't rallying to have that closed.

Live and let live i say, or we could just ban everything that grinds our personal gears. :/