Madam, - While it is great to see cycling being advocated (Features, February 3rd), I find it frustrating, as a cyclist myself, to see a growing number of irresponsible cyclists in Dublin city. Many cyclists break traffic lights, cycle on busy pavements, carry no lights on their bicycles - the list is endless.
There is a sense of anarchy in Dublin with motorists, cyclists and pedestrians whizzing or scrambling through red lights at incredible danger to themselves and others. If we all exercised a little common courtesy and thought for one another, city life would be safer and more pleasurable.
This is not to say that cycling facilities in Dublin are adequate or always safe to use. Or that some motorists aren't basically bad drivers who behave as if they alone have a right to the roads.
However, it is time for a multitude of cyclists to learn the rules of the road and exercise some basic courtesy towards pedestrians, motorists and other cyclists. - Yours, etc.,
LOUISE LESOVITCH, St Laurence's Road, Chapelizod, Dublin 20.