AFTER the enforced incarceration of many people for one of the days of the recent Bank Holiday, owing to the jaunt of cyclists through our fair city and surrounding roads, it would be interesting to know who made money from this bike ride.

It was bad enough that those who have to go to work effectively lost a day’s holiday because of it. A few days before the ride, I had a phone call from a local butcher who was upset because he would have to close for the whole day as many of his customers wouldn’t be able to get to the shop.

But to return to the money made, will the small independent shopkeepers get a share? We also wonder if all the shiny metal barriers had been purchased specially for the ride, and if so, at what cost.

What was the cost of the outside firm which was brought in to replace the car-wrecking, back-breaking plastic carbuncles on the roads after all the money had been spent removing them and smoothing the surfaces in honour of a few bikes traversing the roads for a few seconds?

Perhaps we could have a published debit and credit information sheet provided for the residents, for whom, we are told, there isn’t enough money to properly repair the roads and footpaths for our use, but mainly, who has profited.

Janet S Kitchen-Cooper, Ashley Park Road, York.