Favouring the cyclists

People in cars now open their doors onto a live bicycle lane

I went down to the seafront last Friday to meet a colleague at the Coffee Cup.

I meet up here most weeks to catch up.

I was more than slightly perturbed that the parking charges have risen yet again, since the past week or so.

This happened last year around the same time, so this is becoming an annual issue, like Council Tax rises.

However, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that Portsmouth City Council have halved the seafront parking, by altering the diagonal parking to parallel, and added electric charging bays.

Why? Because yet again they seem to be bashing the regular everyday motorist in favour of expensive electric cars and bicycles and a new bike-lane between the promenade and these spaces.

This is very bad planning, as people in cars now open their doors and get out onto a live bicycle lane, and we know bicycles are just as unruly as e-scooters at observing general convention, and do very odd manoeuvres.

Disabled drivers are now more prone than ever to this twowheeled bunch. Is Portsmouth City Council aware of this danger of bicycles hitting people and cars?

Why is the City Council hell bent on hurting the motorist for the sake of bicycles?

Cycling is good for us but shouldn’t be exclusive or take us back to the preindustrialised era?

Has anyone else noticed that the green agenda is being forced upon us all by stealth, by adding layers of hare-brained planning, hidden behind the meloncholy of the self-loathing hipster Liberals?

Do councillors not want tourism in St Judes, Old Portsmouth, central Southsea or Eastney and Craneswater?

They are killing our city’s heritage off with their green agenda at all costs, passing that cost on to us.

David Chandler St Judes Southsea