I WONDER how many of the cyclists killed on the roads this year were the fault of the cyclist.

It is typical of anti-car people like John Cossham (Letters, June 20) to blame it all on motorists.

He also mentions about lack of infrastructure, but many thousands of pounds have been spent on cycle lanes, many of which are hardly ever used.

Even in Water End and Clifton Moorgate, I still see cyclists riding on the road and on the wrong pathway.

If cyclists want to feel less vulnerable then they should stick to the rules and use the cycle paths provided.

Many people are sick and tired of the anti-car brigade dictating to us how to run our lives.

For many the car is the only viable means of transport and we have paid many thousands of pounds to both own and run a car, so we are entitled to use our cars when we like.

Do us a favour anti-car brigade and shut up.

Ian Foster, Hawthorne Avenue, Haxby

 

THE ostentatious nudists who take part in the York Naked Bike Ride might be taken more seriously by those who prefer a little more decorum if they held their protest in January rather than June. Then we really would see what they are made of.

Geoff Robb, Hunters Close, Dunnington

 

PLEASE print some more photos of the wonderful 60s.

It’s great to look back at a time when homosexuality was illegal and so was performing an outdoor activity without your clothes on.

With so many strange sexual activities now being allowed no wonder the crime figures are down.

Can’t help wondering what else could be legalised to take even more pressure off the police.

John Brittlebank, Esplanade Court, Marygate, York

 

IT is always in the news and in the daily papers concerning the people doing the safety, on the borders especially, in Calais, where immigrants in their hundreds are trying all sorts to get into transport destined for the UK.

The border patrol people are dealing with an impossible task stopping these immigrants. The Government should get the armed forces to do this job, as a back-up to the normal border police.

It would frighten the living daylights out of them if, for instance, a company of the Black Watch were sent there.

Instead of messing about and doing nothing, do something constructive for once.

Tom Mitchell, Mendip Close, Huntington, York

 

MS PETERSON in her sensible demand to end the purchaser-provider split to save the NHS money (Letters, June 20) states that if she were 40 years younger she’d form a Save The NHS party.

However, she needn’t bother as such a party already exists in the form of the National Health Action Party (NHAP), which stood candidates at key seats around the country in the recent General Election.

There is also the Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) national campaign, which has its own local group in Defend Our NHS York.

We all work together along with the People’s March for the NHS.

Dr Mick Phythian, Monkton Road, York

 

COUNCILLOR David Levene writes to The Press (Letters, June 18).

Would this by any chance be the same Cllr Levene who, in the midst of austerity and economic stringency, was responsible for more than £2 million being spent on repaving King’s Square and the market area when serving with the previous Labour council?

If so, his financial advice should be treated as if he was a member of the Flat Earth Society.

That is to say he should be listened to politely and then dismissively ignored.

Geoffrey Searstone, Moor Lane, York