AS an ardent cyclist for over 40 years and a car driver of 25 years, averaging 25,000 miles a year, I think Jim Todd's comments on the £20 fine for cycling on pavements (Letters, January 21) are misguided.

Certainly, the county's infrastructure is way behind other countries' as far as public transport and cycle-friendly areas go, but to intimate that only the young cyclists are the villains and that the motor car is the devil's tool is to take the wrong tack completely!

BRIAN WOOD, Preston New Road, Blackburn.

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