It may be too late
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.
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Hide AdI 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?
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Hide AdThis 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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