Re: Kids riding on pavement - local news story

Tom Crispin <kije.remove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:16:12 +0000,
notmyaddress.1.ekulnamsob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ekul Namsob) wrote:

Simon Brooke <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mind you, I am not defending cycling on the pavement, even by eight year
olds. But if the State and the community (and the police as our
representatives) want children not to cycle on the pavement, they have
some degree of responsibility to make the roads acceptably safe - which,
at 3,000 deaths per year, they currently are not.

Hear, hear.

I would argue that pretty much all residential streets should be play
streets.

The children's mum's argument was that she considered one of the roads
on the children's route to their grandparents too narrow for cars to
pass a cyclist safely, and therefore instructed her children to use
the pavement.

I wouldn't want to argue with the mum about her judgement.

Nor would I. I only began to ride on roads other than my own street, on
which we had played hide and seek behind parked cars for years, at the
age of nine or ten. Until that point, we would bomb round the block, my
brother famously suffering a brake failure down Tankerville Drive on his
Chopper, flying over some innocent's front wall and having his fall
broken by a rose bush. I don't think anyone even considered that a
helmet, armbands or what-have-you would have made a scrap of difference.

Them were the days.

Cheers,
Luke


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