I WRITE in support of Mr Ryder and Mrs Sankey regarding the behaviour of certain cyclists (Your Letters, July 28). I have been trying for years to get cyclists off pavements and other places that they have no right to be. The Highway Code (1999) states that "Cyclists must not cycle on a pavement" (p15, para 54).
The loutish behaviour of the cyclists who ran into Mrs Sankey, an elderly lady, is, I am sorry to say, all too typical of far too many cyclists in Bury. I suspect it will not be long before someone is seriously injured, or worse. Anyone who doubts this should go and observe the underground pavement which links Irwell Street and Bury Bridge: it is a veritable death trap!
What we have in this town is cycling anarchy. The law is daily being contemptuously flouted while the police have powers to fine miscreants on the spot: a power, it seems, they are not prepared to use. Why not?
Are cyclists immune from legal requirements? Are they more important than pedestrians? In general I am a strong supporter of the police, but I have to say that, on this issue, they are failing the community very badly.
RAY HONEYFORD,
Wragby Close, Bury.
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