Cyclists should take the Highway Code since they are on the roads like motorists

Since the start of the circuit breaker in April to restrict movement of people, I have noticed that many more people are using bicycles to commute. I am not against this trend and find it encouraging.

Yet, increasingly, I have been noticing that some of these cyclists are not very considerate to other road users. They behave as if they are motorists as well as pedestrians — choosing to ride on the roads when it suits them or on the pavements when it is more convenient for them, and sometimes using a combination of both. 

Worse, they blatantly circumvent the traffic lights as if these do not apply to them.

The last straw for me was when I witnessed a cyclist riding against the flow of traffic in the middle of the second lane on a two-lane road. 

I nearly collided into the cyclist. When I honked at him, the cyclist made a rude gesture at me.

Anyone using the roads should be mindful of the traffic rules and traffic environment — but not this emerging group of cyclists.

I am beginning to believe that it should be compulsory for all cyclists to take and pass the Highway Code, a code of conduct for road users.

They need to understand what it means to share the road with others and they cannot think that other road users have to always give way to them.