On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:16:32 +0100, Arthur Figgis
<afiggis@example.com.invalid> wrote:

>While I've not done a statistically valid survey, when I've been in the 
>Netherlands I've noticed that cycling on the pavement seemed a lot more 
>common than in Britain - over here it tends to be yoofs and people who 
>are going to be a problem however they get about, in the Netherlands it 
>was pretty much everyone.

In the past two days I've counted about a dozen cyclists on my route
to or from stations in Manchester & Salford.  Only two were on the
road, the rest were a mix of ages, mostly using the pavement to cycle
against the flow of traffic (i.e. on the right hand footpath).