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'Not all e-bikers are rogues!' - Your Letters plus a 1973 picture of maintenance work on Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

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nostalgia pic. Bridgnorth. Maintenance work on Bridgnorth Cliff Railway in 1973. This is a print in the Shropshire Star picture archive and the caption pasted on the back reads: 'Both carriages of Bridgnorth's cliff railway side by side at the bottom of the incline while the system is overhauled. The maintenance engineers working on the track and carriages are from left, Arthur Unit, John Murphy, Martin Simpson, and Arthur Nettleton.' The date on the caption is 10.1.73, i.e. January 10, 1973, which will be publication date. The print has the Shropshire Star copyright stamp and the photographer was Dave Bagnall. Library code: Bridgnorth nostalgia 2020.

Be fair to us e-bike riders

​I am annoyed of the blackening of characters of e-bike and e-scooter riders. There is an ignorant tribe out there who tar us with the same brush. I am 78 and a rider of a legal e-bike there are thousands of us on these bikes young and like me old who ride these bikes and scooters within the law.

I would struggle to exceed the 15.7mph that is the law for these vehicles but I know there are many nutters who choose to deregulate their machines so they can do any speed they wish. These same nutters decide to ride on pavements etc against the law posing a threat to pedestrians and other road users.

I do not excuse these nutters, but do we call for a ban on cars when cars are driven over the speed limit, when cars park on pavements forcing people walk in the road, when cars drive around with illegal blacked out windows, when cars park on double yellow lines, when cars go through red lights and so on, when cars park on cycle lanes? No.