I WRITE in support of Harry Punter (Letters, February 15). He points out something which does not apparently occur to many motorists, the good sense behind a law that makes it an offence to obstruct a yard of pavement to the hindrance of blind/partly sighted people, wheelchair users and parents with prams or pushchairs.

As I do not belong to any of the above categories, I have no axe to grind, so when a man breaks that law, quite rightly he has to pay a fine.

As for the report that other people have made a collection to pay his fine - I can only think of the old adage, "There's nowt so queer as folk."

It was not a difficult task for the traffic wardens to catch an offender whose car occupies approximately half the width of the pavement; so I would like to issue a challenge to those guardians of the law to prove their mettle and catch cyclists, who by their speedy riding also on the pavements, and often without lights after dark, cause even greater hazards to the people in the categories mentioned above.

John Robson,

Dringthorpe Road,

York.

Updated: 10:18 Monday, February 21, 2005