A MORLEY, of Applegarth Avenue, Newton Abbot, writes:

It is, of course, right to encourage cycling, but people who cannot cycle for various reasons should not be made to feel guilty.

It is all very well for the TV to show 80-year-olds performing marvelous feats, but many more of us cannot. There is a problem. There are three modes of transport and only two places for them. Someone has to share.

If you put cyclists and pedestrians on the same path, there is this danger – if you step out from your front door or gate, or from a footpath opening on to the pavement, without perfect visibility, you are liable to be mown down by a 20mph cyclist.

It has happened to me. Luckily, it was only a glancing blow, but a fraction earlier and it would have been a hospital case. Of course, cyclists want to be protected from motor trafic.

Would it not be better to keep the narrower pavement to give more road space and put a solid white line two or three feet out in the road? I am told that this is working well in Marsh Barton, Exeter and even Newton Abbot.