Bike-riding food couriers in Preston city centre have been branded “an accident waiting to happen” over claims that they are routinely breaching one-way rules - and then mounting the pavement when met with oncoming traffic.
When she was a city councillor, Christine was a vocal critic of the conversion of Fishergate into a ‘shared space’ street, which left little delineation between the highway and the footpath. However, she now points to a “lack of town centre policing” as the main cause of the incidents she has witnessed.
The food delivery riders are taking to the pavement, much to the concern of a former Preston city councillor “It’s an accident waiting to happen - and something will happen one day. I also worry that it’s the motorist who would be blamed if they knocked a rider off their bike - but it’d actually be the cyclist that had caused it and they're the ones who would get injured.
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