Leaving hire-bikes in the pavement makes navigation extremely difficult for me as a visually impaired person who uses a white cane. These bikes ought to be left in docking stations, preferably on the road where they wouldn’t take up space needed by pedestrians.

People regularly leave hire bikes on the pavements in this area, often near the entrances to the three local schools. The schools could do more to address this, perhaps through creating docking spaces in some of the large areas given over to car users on their premises.