Bicycles and pavements

In our modern cities should bicycles be allowed to weave in and out of the traffic?

With some towns at virtual grid-lock in the 'rush-hour' - for the unitiated, that's when traffic comes to standstill because there are too many people in a rush to get to work at the same time - many cyclists take to the pavements.

This is invariably safer for the cyclists, and if all cyclists were responsible and dismounted when pedestrians were about, then it wouldn't create any problems. But some cyclists weave in and out of the pedestrians at speed causing accidents... so now some councils have come down on all cyclists using pavements.

Of course lack of space is the real problem - or put the other way - over-population. There is no room to build safe cycle lanes to keep cyclists away from both pedestrians and motorised transport.

They aren't creating any more land HERE!