IF Peter Burgess looked at the road casualty figures (Serious Problem, Readers' Letters, May 23) he would know why many cyclists ride on pavements.
Cars kill and maim cyclists every week of the year. That is why most parents are glad to know their children can ride on pavements nowadays.
(I know the law has not been changed!).
This was never done in my youth in the 1940s and 1950s.
Yes I am quite old a pensioner and yes I do get irritated by careless cyclists, but I understand why they have taken to pavements. They want to survive.
When we can provide safe cycle lanes everywhere I shall expect cyclists to use them. Until that day I shall have to be tolerant. I walk everywhere, by the way, so I do meet the problem under discussion every day.
Brian Roberts, Stamford Street East, York.
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