A walk on the sidewalk is a dangerous activity in Dover.
Cyclists, left unchecked to zoom around on the pavement, have been growing in confidence. Seemingly regarding the pavement as the norm, it is not unusual for them to bomb around blind corners at top speed - the York Street Folkestone Road junction being a particular blackspot. And that's just one example.
When is action is going to be taken on this ever-worsening problem? As with my column on the boy racer plague in the "Dover Express" in 2010, I ask whether there has to be fatality before we wake up to the issue?
There is a fatality rate nationally as this article shows:
http://road.cc/content/news/6482-cycling-groups-back-jail-term-killer-cyclist
Right, I'm off out for an evening walk on the seafront, and I promise I'll not use the cycle lanes.
Over to you, powers that be.......