IT BEGGARS belief that a relatively short section of cycle path can have a £600,000 overspend and a completion a year late to boot and using poor ground conditions as an excuse (The Press, April 18).

Before the project started didn’t council get a proper fixed estimate; didn’t the contractors survey the land they expected to build across?

This cycle path connects at one end to a shopping estate and all the associated traffic hazards, and yet the busy arterial road of Wigginton Road has no cycle lane.

A couple of weeks ago I noticed two men pouring tar into cracks that had appeared along the most of the length of the then unopened cycle path – surely not £600,000 worth?

Anyway I have a spade and a wheelbarrow and hope to put in a price for the Wigginton Road cycle path, £20 sounds about right and any over-run, say £2 or £3 million pounds or whatever, the council will pick up the overspend.

D M Deamer, Penleys Grove Street, Monkgate, York.