9:54am Wednesday 17th March 2010
By Reader's letter
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in Gillygate. I’m still failing to understand how two words to two different groups of people can mean so many things.
“Road closed” is pretty simple, yet so many drivers think they have a need, or don’t have to obey what everyone else does.
I had an “altercation” on Friday night with a van driver who claimed to live in Gillygate, despite travelling at a stupid speed down the street (he didn’t turn into a side road at the end...).
Now point two – “cyclists dismount”.
I might be a bit thick, but would have thought that even “York pedestrians on two wheels” would have understood the first bit. “Cyclists” means people on bicycles. Now we’ve sorted that bit, “dismount” means get off (and presumably push).
A final observation – the council website says that York pedestrian streets are “strictly enforced”… bring on the revolution !
Dave Barker, Huntington, York.
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