QUESTION: When is a cycle lane not a cycle lane?
Answer: When there are motor vehicles parked over it.
Jill Waters writes (Letters, February 1) about a waste of money putting a cycle lane in Stockton Lane. Very true.
There are now lots of pretty pictures of cycles along the lane over which are parked many vehicles.
Even if the vehicles were not there, cyclists would still have to pull into the road away from the kerb owing to the many drops over the drain covers and dips where ironmongery is much lower than the tarmac, not to mention the naturalised potholes.
Those drops are a danger to life and limb of a cyclist and death to the suspension of vehicles.
Perhaps more thought should be given to the proper maintenance of the roads rather than painting useless pictures on them.
Janet S Kitchen-Cooper, Ashley Park Road, York
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