MR Robert Sephton’s not infrequent complaints about cyclists in your letters pages would appear to suggest he thinks there are too many of them on the roads.

Has it not occurred to him that a far greater menace is posed by the ever-growing numbers of motorists, with their polluting, potential killing-machines?

Only recently our Government – the “Greenest Government Ever” – was exalting in yet more record car sales. What is the use in talking about “Boris Bikes”, and the rest of it, in the face of such an attitude?

True, these sales might mean good news for the economy, but for the state of our already over-used road networks, and for the environment generally, they surely spell long-term and eventual disaster.

Today’s letters

As a pedestrian and very occasional cyclist, I resent continual exposure to motor fumes on my daily travels.

Many years ago, the late, great cartoonist Carl Giles envisaged a Britain of the future as one continuous gridlock. In may ways, we are not far off that point now.

Indeed on roads such as the A34, we seem to have reached it. Moreover, with ever-mounting pressure on our roads, how can there ever be the remotest chance of ever solving the pot hole problem?

NICHOLAS WILSON

Summerhill Road

Summertown

Oxford

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