YOUR headline about Sir Chris Hoy's book launch is a little sensational ("Hoy calls for truce between drivers and cyclists to save lives", The Herald, October 12). Let's hope that the people who drive and like to criticise those of us who cycle do read all the article, particularly about the HGV and bus drivers looking aghast when a vehicle rushed past them as they sat on stationary bikes.
Before they come out with the old chestnut about people cycling on pavements they might also take time to consider that when drivers take their vehicles up on a footway (pavement) pedestrians have been killed.
I'm not condoning illegal footway cycling but it has been local government policy to "redetermine" footways for cycle as well as pedestrian use. Significant examples of this action are around the Festival Park area just south of the BBC and STV buildings in Govan and along the north bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow from Glasgow Green to the SEC, with the most disgraceful section being outside the hotel at the north west corner of the Clyde Arc (Squinty) Bridge. Why is it disgraceful? It's below the standard set out in the Design Guide, Cycling by Design, and in such a busy area, frequented by locals and tourists alike, this is just the place where there should be a high quality, segregated cycle way.
Patricia Fort,
15 Lanark Street, Glasgow.
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