Comments on: Flashback Friday: Are you a Cyclist or a Person? https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2020/02/21/flashback-friday-are-you-a-cyclist-or-a-person/ Regular people riding bicycles Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:10:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Geof Wilson https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2020/02/21/flashback-friday-are-you-a-cyclist-or-a-person/#comment-48591 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:10:02 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=20362#comment-48591 In reply to Cyclomaniac.

ditto Cyclomaniac – that article, the language used in it and the comments from Police got my blood boiling. I noticed there were a couple of letters to the editor in The Press a day or two afterwards expressing similar sentiments.

]]> By: Cyclomaniac https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2020/02/21/flashback-friday-are-you-a-cyclist-or-a-person/#comment-48243 Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:21:07 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=20362#comment-48243 Thanks for posting this, I am sure it is not a coincidence. I am outraged at the comments of a Police spokes person following a critically injured cyclist at the intersection of Selwyn and Somerfield street two days ago. Reportedly, the driver had gone through a stop sign and the cyclist was in a cycle lane and had multiple lights. The first comment from the Police was to remind all cyclists to have lights that make them more visible to drivers. Words do matter. Any person injured or killed on the road is a person. The fact that you drive a car should not mean that you have less responsibility in preventing accidents. Big fail.

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