I am of the firm belief that anyone attempting to cycle on any main route is completely mad. When will it get through these mad cyclists thick skulls that in the UK our small twisty roads are just not feasible places for cyclists. Attempting to share these narrow places with all the motorised traffic, buses, lorries, vans, cars, motor bikes and vespas and permit pedestrians on pavements is impossible. There just ain't no room for the two wheeled, very vulnerable and exposed pedaller. I grew up joined at the hip with my bike, as kids we rode for miles along our uncongested highways and byways but that was 70 to 60 years ago, since then there has been an explosion of motorised vehicles. So nowadays the cyclist must take his bike out into the wide open spaces far from machines! To do the reverse and encourage bikes at the expense of motorised vehicles is to kill off trade and businesses. Like it or not, motorised vehicles are here to stay. The only other solution is to bulldose ALL existing roads and the shops, houses and businesses bordering them and re-build wide flat streets in a nice neat grid pattern to enable a wide pavement for pedestrians, a barrier, a wide oneway space for cyclists, a barrier, then a one way wide space for motorised vehicles with buses in a sep. lane too, then an central reservation and then all those lanes repeated in the reverse order! That's the future boys and girls - the "wokes" or whatever they're called don't like our history anyway so may as well smash it all up - quaint and ancient is so over! We oldies have had the very best of life even allowing for the devestations, deprivatuons and horrors of 2 World Wars, bombs, rationing and Spanish flu.
Jennifer Selig ● 2251d