Cycling the wrong way down the lane

From the description in David Hadley’s letter (Chronicle, August 2) he appears to be cycling down the onpavement cycle lane then onto the lightly segregated cycle lane and eventually into oncoming traffic. He may have noticed that the cycle symbols are upside down to him. The on-road light segregated cycle lane and on pavement cycle lane are for cycling towards the city centre. He is riding the wrong way up a road. Although cycle campaigners in 2014 proposed a two-way cycle lane the council ignored this request and felt that a child on a bike should be able to negotiate Cleveland Place/london Road junction and then ride east to Larkhall by “sharing the road”, remembering to take the lane to ensure they are not close passed by cars and large HGVS. It rightly appears that David is also not prepared to do this rather scary manoeuvre and has decided that riding the wrong way up a cycle lane is safer for him. As to the breaks in the light protection, they are there to allow access to side roads and, scarily, bus pull ins which can be rather surprising to most families when riding along to have a bus pull up in front of you forcing you into the main traffic travelling at up to 30mph. Finally the council should be congratulated for installing the light segregation on mandatory cycle lanes. A first for this council and something we should be considering more of going forward as a cheap way to protect vulnerable cyclists from traffic. Adam Reynolds Cycle Bath Chair