It may be too late
SO, councillor John Rogers is going to ask cyclists to be considerate along the prom.
Well, while he's at that impossible task, perhaps he could ask motorists not to use their mobile phones while driving?
The more I read about councillor Rogers, the more I feel this scheme is for his personal pleasure, only.
I just hope he is the one who has signed the council's public liability insurance policy. For, as the old adage goes – "accidents will happen".
And I can just see a spokesperson after the event explaining: "we will learn lessons from this incident".
Well, it may be too late.
I walk from my home near the Thomas a' Becket to the pier at least twice a week at 8.30am and hardly see another walker on the seafront.
If the forthcoming scheme is intended to be an experiment, then why not allow two-wheelers right of way up to say, 10 o'clock and then after 4.30pm?
This would facilitate their journeys to and from work and avoid children and old people who are at school and in bed, respectively.
As for the weekends, I have no solution, safe to say that this past Sunday many folk were enjoying the sunshine and only a handful of bikes came by, it has to be said at frightening speeds but – they would argue – not necessarily being ridden irresponsibly.
Nevertheless, they are a silent menace, a threat which will only intensify through the summer months.
Brian Wiggins
Highdown Avenue
Worthing
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