And so along with the police and city officials they have written a white paper proposingchanges to the highway code.
At present, the Rollerbladers are legally considered to bepedestrians and should remain on the pavements or, if using the roads, travel facing oncoming traffic. However, as Paul Barre of Prevention Routiere explains: “This doesn’t take into consideration the upsurge in Rollerbladers It is urgent that new guidelines are laid down”. The proposals give Rollerbladers the same status as cyclists. They would have to skate in single file, use cycle lanes and wear reflective clothing. The paper also suggests colour-coding streets according to the difficulty they present for rollerbladers.With the colour scheme of green to blue to red to black, the boulevards of Paris might soon be mistaken for ski runs..

“GOD HELP US if the Islamists win again,” said Ahmet Demir as he queued to cast his vote in Turkey’s elections yesterday. “But if it comes to that, at least we have the army.”

Turkey’s secular establishment looked set for another showdown with political Islam as voters flocked to the polls yesterday. The Islamist Virtue Party and Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit’s leftist party were believed to be running neck and neck as voting began.
“Turkey cannot tolerate living through chaos again,” wrote the mass circulation newspaper Sabah. Turkey has seen four governments in as many years as squabbling secular parties tried to unite to keep the Islamists out of office.Virtue’s supporters were out in force yesterday.

“I hope the election result will reflect God’s will,” said Said Yultekin, clad in a prayer cap and robes which are illegal in Turkey. “Let’s see who will dare to keep us from power after the people’s votes make us the biggest party,” Virtue leader Recai Kutan said at his final election rally.But a Virtue administration is unlikely. The Islamists won the most votes in the last election, but were forced from government by the military.Its streets draped with colourful party banners, Turkey has the trappings of full democracy. But in a country where television news shows the army chief of staff casting his vote, it is the generals who hold the real power.