DISTURBING is how I would describe the latest reported attack on a pedestrian by yobs on cycles on the path leading from Danebury Drive to Woodlea Avenue, Acomb.

It is disturbing because no one is immune from such cowardly actions by hooded scum.

Successive councils in York over the past 20 years or more have actively encouraged cycling on footpaths to manoeuvre around traffic lights and therefore giving in to the lawless element.

These people arrogantly ride through busy town pedestrian zones, and often the wrong way on one-way streets unchallenged.

It is high time pedestrians were more vociferous and stopped stepping aside to make way for yob cyclists riding illegally on footpaths.

One even sees them now crossing from footpath to footpath on zebra crossings.

The police turn a blind eye to all this, presumably because it would create to much paperwork, but they would soon come screaming along in their panda cars if a pedestrian fought back after being run over.

The last Labour council was party to all this mayhem, I wonder if the new council will condone illegal cycling also.

Bob Waite, Holgate, York.