Cycling and safety
Yesterday (Friday), I had just parked by the pavement outside the shop on the corner of Argyll Square (it used to be Blacks), got out of the car, walked round to go on the pavement when a cyclist came whizzing past me, crossed over towards the railway station, on the pavement.
Within the next hour, (I was sitting in the Royal Hotel) another cyclist came round past the Royal on the pavement. Of course, not a policeman in sight. When I was out this afternoon, I met a woman on her bike peddling along the pavement on George Street.
I get so angry at these inconsiderate people – a member of my family (not in Oban) got off a bus, onto the pavement, and was knocked down by a cyclist on the pavement. She broke her shoulder.
I feel it is time the police got out and walked the streets to try to put a stop to this illegal behaviour before someone – potentially myself, aged 84, and folk a lot younger – gets knocked over and ends up with broken bones.
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