I REFER to your article Omar urges return to bicycles and donkey carts (FTW March 3, 2001).
As a veteran cyclist and well qualified to comment, may I suggest that Minister Omar actually acquires one of these bicycles and endeavours to commute on country or city roads where he can experience first hand the risks involved in being a cyclist.
I would go so far as to say that unless the Minister makes provision for cycle paths these thousands of bicycles he speaks of are going to end up on the public roads and the cyclists will become statistics and not actually make any contribution to the most obvious advantage he mentions which is safety. If the uncontrolled movement of cattle, sheep etc is not enough, what about the existing fleet of donkey carts!
This will lead to road devastation not preservation, as the Minister would have us believe.
Dennis Smith, Cape Oil Products. (23 Argus tours to date)
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