{"id":210946,"date":"2025-10-19T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210946\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:22:07","slug":"letter-cyclists-should-use-lanes-where-provided-or-face-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210946\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: &#8216;Cyclists should use lanes where provided or face fines&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Yet once again whilst driving back past the airport I found myself crawling along in a line of traffic from the traffic lights at the airport entrance to Chapel Gate entrance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The reason for this was a lone cyclist completely oblivious to other road users.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  What do you think? send us a letter for publication by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/25554421.letter-cyclists-use-lanes-provided-face-fines\/mailto:letters@bournemouthecho.co.uk%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">letters@bournemouthecho.co.uk<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  What is most annoying is the fact that there is a footpath\/cycle path that runs all along this route, yet ignorant cyclists ignore using it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  I am also a cyclist and try not to be a nuisance on the road, using cycle paths wherever possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The law needs to be changed in so much that cyclists should use cycle lanes where provided or else face prosecution and a fine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kevin Diment\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  New Road,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bournemouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yet once again whilst driving back past the airport I found myself crawling along in a line of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-210946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}