NOW that the speed-camera breeding programme is reaching fruition, would some of the thousands of pounds which have been and will be made from them not be beneficial to both the average cyclist and the anti-social, unsafe minority of them who seem to either know nothing of, or choose to ignore, the laws of traffic?
Cycling proficiency courses in years past used to teach cycle control and, more importantly, the 'do's and 'don'ts' of road safety and where it was allowed to ride.
With children apparently not willing to get involved in such schemes nowadays, perhaps the police and the road safety lobby could make available some of the cash from cameras to award prizes for successful participants in any such scheme.
Were the courses widespread and prizes desirable, perhaps we would see fewer cyclists on pavements and safer cyclists on roads.
HARRY ROBINSON, Juniper Court, Woodside Road, Accrington.
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