Sir – As both car driver and cyclist, I sympathize with the cogent cases made by three cyclists (Letters, July 21) for not using the Botley Road’s unsafe and inconvenient cycle path.
However, no such excuses can be made in other parts of the city, where well-lit and well maintained separate cycle tracks are available, and cycling on the highway is really dangerous.
For example, driving eastward after dark on the Marston Ferry Road, the curve of that road means that drivers are often dazzled even by the dipped headlights of oncoming vehicles. Until the very last moment they are, therefore, unable to discern cyclists, who shouldn’t be there anyway; and often they are obliged to brake abruptly or swerve dangerously across the centre of the road.
Most of these offenders, moreover, are not callow youths or doddery oldies, but sleekly arrogant mature show-offs.
Hubert Allen, Old Marston
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