Re: Advice to parents

Tom Crispin <kije.remove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:u7eld3dbv983j3cvqv038qfru1os2edvdj@xxxxxxx:

Perceived danger and real danger are very different things, however,
you may recall that some time ago I was knocked off my bike almost
outside the school's gates by a twerp in a white van doing an
unexpected and dangerous manoeuvre and who failed to look.


Still no need to reinforce largely irrational perceptions of danger.
What were you saying about the number of child cyclists killed in London
in the past two years?


I can't forsee a single parent being concerned in the slightest bit by
a six or eight year old child cycling on the pavement is a responsible
manner. Even the Daily Wail wouldn't bat an eyelid. If you listen to
the complaints of pavement cycling, they are not about responsible
use, they are about idiots who scoot up onto the pavement to pass
traffic jams to shave a few seconds of their journey, or who hurtle
the wrong way up one-way streets, using the pavement for their
shortcut.

"School for lycra louts". A local school is training its pupils to
become a future generation of lycra louts by encouraging them to cycle on
the pavement.....drift off to wibble about somebody's Aunt Maude who
never left her home again after an encounter with a pavement cyclist.
cont p93


The sort of six year old I have in mind lives within a mile of the
school. The mother follows the child to school on foot, while the
child cycles along the pavement waiting at each road junction for his
mum, and they cross together.

Fine, leave it as a present for the parents to decide without advice on
acceptable law breaking.


I cannot think of many eight year olds who would have the discipline
to walk their bike for 250m on the pavement alongside a busy road,
with bendy busses and channel tunnel lorries fuming their way to
central London among rush hour traffic and school run mums.


Again, leave it up to them.

In the end though its your letter. Let us know how it turns out.

--
Tony

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell
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