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  When moving to left or right on the pavement, for example so as not to walk into someone, I always look round, because so often someone on a bike comes riding along the pavement and you don'r know they're coming.
  Some fools even speed on the pavement with their bike.
  
  The idea of being rammed in the leg from behind by a bike-wheel makes it a necessity to turn round when changing direction on the pavement!
  There should be severe penalties for bike-riding on pavements full stop!
  
  If someone wants to transit a specific distance with their bike on the pavement so as to avoid some dangerous stretch of road, or to cover 20 metres on the right-hand pavement without going onto the left traffic lane and then back to a right turn-off (such as from the Dover College road to Priory Station), that's understandable, but GET OFF THE BIKE AND PUSH IT WHILE WALKING ON THE PAVEMENT!) Full Stop.
  
  The other day I had a near collision with a biker doing just that, pedaling to Priory Station on the pavement rather than walking and pushing the bike by hand. It was only through an immediate reaction of mine that I avoided it.
  Frustrating! nerve-racking!
  
  What about children walking on pavements, or elderly people, who have less instinctive reactions?
  
  The Authorities must do something about this before an accident happens, it's just waiting to happen!

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