The refrain from Alan Taylor, that cyclists should pay for cycle-friendly roads, ignores the inconvenient fact that cyclists already do ("Let's make cyclists pay their own way", The Herald, September 14).
Urban roads are financed through council tax, not vehicle licensing.
Alan Taylor complains cyclists don’t use cycle lanes even when they are provided. That is because they tend to be death traps; obviously designed by people who have never ridden a bicycle in their lives. Cycle lanes that start and end abruptly, terminate before dangerous junctions, require cyclists on main roads to give way to side roads, or attempt to constrain cyclists to narrow strips of pot-hole strewn strips of tarmac, serve no useful purpose.
Cyclists do pay
The refrain from Alan Taylor, that cyclists should pay for cycle-friendly roads, ignores the inconvenient fact that cyclists already do ("Let's make cyclists pay their own way", The Herald, September 14).
Urban roads are financed through council tax, not vehicle licensing.
Alan Taylor complains cyclists don’t use cycle lanes even when they are provided. That is because they tend to be death traps; obviously designed by people who have never ridden a bicycle in their lives. Cycle lanes that start and end abruptly, terminate before dangerous junctions, require cyclists on main roads to give way to side roads, or attempt to constrain cyclists to narrow strips of pot-hole strewn strips of tarmac, serve no useful purpose.
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Don't show me this again.