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Bikes are bad

Further to Richard Franklin's letter (July 2) I would add selfishness
to the list of cyclists' crimes.

It dumbfounds me the way a single cyclist out for exercise can choose
to do so on traffic-clogged streets, disrupting the bus service for
people needing to start work on time.

In busy thoroughfares like Western Road, it is often impossible for
buses to safely overtake even a cyclist.

The same cyclist can hold up a bus for a whole series of stops, because
most of these wobbling idiots pedal so painfully slowly that by the
time the bus has picked up passengers and is en route to the next stop,
it has to slow down for the same cyclist well before it gets there.

-Richard Prangnell, Hove
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Alan (Fred) Pipes
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www.fred-pipes.com
NUJ member since 1975