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As an enthusiastic cyclist , and after a recent visit to the Sydney C.B.D., I feel compelled to offer my congratulations to Fearless Frank and his adventurous Council The C.B.D of Sydney must have what are the best Bicycle Lanes in the South Pacific. These lanes are what used to be called pavements or footpaths, but now, together with traffic islands, are the main preserve of mountain bikers, trick cyclists, cycle message boys/girls or general circus clowns. On any day we can be watched, usually in groups, weaving through the C.B.D.. Usually leaping from road to pavement to traffic island, riding rodeo style on one wheel, doing brake turns and then leaving our bicycles across the entrances of any shop, which we may decide to make a delivery at. Sadly, this anarchist lifestyle is a tad disrupted by the e presence of pedestrians walking on our cycle lanes. This includes old people (most whom refuse to jump out of our way as quickly as we wish), mothers with children (a real hazard), blind people with guide dogs and the handicapped. Weekends can be extremely distressing to us, as there are more people than usual and we now have to wear padding and helmets to prevent injury to ourselves. Perhaps Fearless Frank could employ more ordinance inspectors with his alleged savings, (I wonder where all these savings go "Rate reductions?) These inspectors will prevent these nuisance pedestrians from interfering with our enjoyment of these nice new bicycle lanes. We, the usually non- rate paying, law-breaking, pavement cyclists of Sydney are over the moon about our new cycle lanes but in order to fully appreciate these facilities, suggest that pedestrians respect our claim to the pavements and either stay at home, get a car and remain in it all times or buy a bicycle and join us making a chaos that harmonizes with the rest of the rest of Franks` C.B.D. Tom Collins (with assistance and Plagiarism from Bart)
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