While the government is providing money to encourage cycling and local authorities wondering how to best spend it, many cyclists want to make it more dangerous by not having lights at night (October 25).
Encouraging cycling in parks and on pavements facilitates this offence. (Perhaps walkers will have to take to wearing front and rear lights).
Before the days of (redeemable) on the spot fines, cyclists without lights, having been booked by one of the many constables then on the beat, would be summoned to appear before the magistrates.
Cycling could be made safer by providing more courses in cycling skills, as suggested by the proprietor of a cycle business (your report, October 24), even if this amounts to no more than teaching cyclists to observe the Highway Code. Offenders could be obliged to buy a copy and sit a GCSE type exam on it.
Robert Sephton, Selwyn Crescent, Radley, Abingdon
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