A former city councillor says one-way rules across Preston's city centre including Fishergate are regularly being breached by food delivery couriers and putting pedestrians at risk of being hit.
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.A former Preston councillor says she witnesses near misses involving pedestrians almost every time she heads into town – and has been involved in one herself.
“I’ve seen people leaping aside – they just [have to] jump out of the way. [The riders] are on a mission, but we don’t want, say, some elderly person knocking over whose life is then ruined or someone with a pram being run into. “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.Lancashire County Council
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