Mark Collet (Letters, June 10) wrote about cycling in Copenhagen, population about 750,000. In 2012 36 per cent of the people commuting to work or school were riding bicycles, many using dedicated cycle lanes. No sharing with pedestrians there, unlike the dangerous situation in Rotorua.
When will they learn,here, that cycles and pedestrians do not mix? Will it take a serious injury to a pedestrian strolling along a shared pathway, unaware of the silent and speeding bicycle about to hit him as he makes, as pedestrians are wont to do, a sudden change of course?
As an aside, commuter cyclist and former Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown, known to have biked to the airport to meet visiting dignitaries, wanted to see as many Wellingtonians cycling to work as has Copenhagen but I don't believe her ideas had much impact. Apart from the reclaimed land area of its CBD, Wellington is noted for its steep hills. Copenhagen is flat.
R.G. MAYES Rotorua
Ms Raukawa Tait's missive (Rotorua Daily Post June 9) on anyone who is guilty of generalisation about linking the rise of terrorism with the Islam religion in my view belies the inconvenient truth that Islam issues religious fundamental terrorists from amongst their midst.
It is indeed heartening to see that responsible Islamic leaders are finally distancing themselves from those amongst their flock who espouse that the Koran sanctions their terrorist activities which are at odds with their claim that Islam is a religion of peace; therein lies the inconvenient truth.
