Mrs Backwoodsperson spends a fair bit of time working in The Netherlands. She’s a big admirer of their way of handling the considerable amount of cycle-traffic, and believes an investment in this country in their system would do much to improve the situation for all road and footpath users.

I do agree with Steve that it’s a minority of inconsiderate, reckless cyclists who give the majority of good, sensible cyclists a bad name. Very much the same way that a minority of dog-owners who don’t pick their dog’s shit up and dispose of it properly give the vast majority who, like me, are fastidious about clearing up after their dogs, a bad name.