Children on bicycles
Sir, — Our roads are designed for traffic flowing smoothly at 30 m.p.h. The pedestrian is excluded, but the forgotten cyclist expected to compete. It is logical to separate incompatible traffic flows—pedestrian from cyclist, cyclist from motorist. Indeed, it is imperative as 24,000 children cycle to school in Christchurch. Several hundred travellers arrive and leave a given point
in a brief period, necessarily bunched and inconveniencing some other road users. If it were a sporting event and the travellers motorists, the police might assist; if a factory the traffic planners would. While child behaviour is readily condemned, their needs are neglected. They are real, for in Christchurch (excluding Riccarton and Waimairi) cyclists suffer almost three times the number of reported injuries of the combined total for Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. Parents in Mairehau resisted decapitation largely because of cycle insecurity and their school committee will not be apathetic on this issue. — Yours, etc., N. R. BENNETT. May 4, 1978. [This correspondence is now closed.—Editor.]
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