On your bike

Sir, – Whatever happened to the bicycle bell? Sixty years ago they were mandatory. The road traffic regulations required cyclists to “give audible warning of their approach”. And cycling on footpaths was an offence.

I like to walk, but I am elderly and deaf and I do not hear cyclists coming up behind me. Every day I am startled and often frightened by a cyclist suddenly appearing at my shoulder as he whizzes past at 20km/h. Basic courtesy demands that cyclists should not use footpaths and when they feel they have to, they should think of the pedestrians for whom the paths are designed. – Yours, etc,

BRENDAN BURKE

Gainsborough Park,

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Malahide,

Co Dublin.