I WOULD really like to issue a plea to some cyclists in the area to take care on pavements.

I take the bus to work every day and the bus shelter takes up most of the pavement, leaving only a narrow strip of pavement for passage.

Everyone that sits at this shelter, myself included, sits facing the direction from which the bus comes.

We stand up and move out the shelter when we see the bus emerge, and don't naturally think to look behind us to check whether there’s a cyclist hurtling down the hill towards us.

There have been so many occasions when I (and other people not so able-bodied) have almost been hit by cyclists whizzing down the pavement at full pelt.

Just this morning as I got off the bus (not thinking to poke my head out first and check in both directions for cyclists) I nearly got wiped out by a cyclist riding very fast along the pavement.

Perhaps these people think that a bike cannot really do much damage.

Well I have Brittle Bones Disease, and although I'm able to leap out the way, if I were hit things would be very, very unpleasant for me.

If you're cycling on the pavements, please do it very carefully!

STEFF EASOM, Commercial Road, Parkstone