Sir, – Lucille Redmond yearns for an e-bike, but notes “If there were an e-bike for the elderly grant, similar to the bike to work grant” (Letters, May 19th), she could have made her trip to Stillorgan a lot easier using one.
Because we are retired, or not in salaried work, we are excluded from the Revenue’s bike-for-work scheme or the e-bike purchase grant scheme. Retired people live all around me and sadly they reach for the car keys to go to a local shop to purchase your paper. Folks like Lucille and me try not to use the car for these trips. I bought an e-bike last year and received no support from Government. I have clocked up 1,500km on it, thus saving a considerable amount of carbon dioxide emissions if done by car. We need a pay-back! – Yours, etc,
MIKE McKILLEN,
Dublin 4.
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Sir, – Further to recent letters on this page about e-scooters in public, my mother was telling her friends how her newly acquired knee scooter made it so much easier to get around when out and about, and even in the house after foot surgery.
Her friends were aghast, wondering how “an e-scooter” was allowed indoors. – Yours, etc,
LISA JANE DORMAN,
Navan,
Co Meath.
