Sir – I noticed today that there was a policeman standing at the traffic lights outside the Co-op in Summertown.
He was telling all the children from Cherwell School to get off their bikes when crossing. Presumably he was there due to the complaints of some grumpy pedestrians. The schoolchildren will cross the road there tomorrow and the day after that until the school closes: that’s how they get to school.
The council’s idea of putting a policeman on the corner to tell people to get off their bikes is not constructive or beneficial.
A better solution would be to change the crossing to make it friendlier to the schoolchildren who have to use it every day.
Of course, it’s easier for the council to bend to the wishes of a few old people and place a policeman there for an hour rather than to actually fix the problem.
Pierre Marshall, Oxford
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