MUCH has been written over the past months concerning changes to the layout of roads in Rishton and, to a lesser extent, Great Harwood, but unless I've missed seeing it, nobody has offered a comment about the cycle racks which have been created.

Great Harwood comes out in top place with a more ornate style and two posts to indicate the purpose of the racks. Rishton is somewhat downmarket with plain tubular ones and only one signpost.

Apart from small children swinging on them, drinkers sitting on them and dogs doing what dogs do on them, I have yet to see either of them used for the purpose for which someone must have considered them necessary.

Might I suggest by way of competition, that we keep a watch on them, and perhaps, as with the first cuckoo in spring, drop a line to the Evening Telegraph to record the event of either of them being put to proper use? Perhaps a puncture repair outfit, or a padlock and chain be offered as a prize.

K A BROWN, Mayfair Crescent, Wilpshire, Blackburn.

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