On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:08:53 +0100 someone who may be "PK"
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>an folks as pedestrians don't expect to encounter fast moving cyclists on
>the pavement either. but I regularly have to avoid such.
I don't. Perhaps I emit some invisible force field that keeps them
away from me. I do pass slow moving cyclists on pavements sometimes.
They seem to pose less danger to me than other pedestrians and
drivers of invalid carriages. However, many in uk.rec.cycling
dislike pavement cyclists under any circumstances and disagree with
my relaxed attitude to them.
I was once told that things are different in London and if I went
there I would be mown down by high speed pavement cyclists screaming
at me to get out of their way. As it happened I was making one of my
rare trips to London the next day. I looked out for these high speed
pavement cyclists and listened for them screaming at me, but
saw/heard none. I did encounter one cyclist on the pavement, taking
a creative route around the junctions outside Kings Cross station.
He posed little danger to me, certainly far less danger than the
nuts driving taxis.
While not all taxi drivers are nuts too many of them are, including
the two who ran me over as I was walking along the pavement. They
were not "just" parking on the pavement either, they were driving on
it.
--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
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