THE other Saturday at midday, two policemen striding majestically along Parliament Street met two mounted cyclists weaving tortuously between shoppers, parents with small children, the elderly and disabled.

Neither policeman turned his head.

Postmen often hurtle along the pavement that runs beside the gateway of the school playground opposite my flat. I confronted them and asked them, courteously, to desist. One of them was impenitent and plainly intends to continue doing so.

Eventually there will be a serious accident and something may then be done. This is not the best way of tackling this peril and nuisance.

Patrick Crozier,

Fishergate, York.

Updated: 10:14 Wednesday, February 04, 2004