Will they make pop-up cycle lanes disappear?
NOW that traffic levels in Leicester are beginning to rise again as people return to work and the schools fully reopen again, I wonder when our motor vehicle-hating mayor is going to remove the stupid pop-up cycle lanes that are hardly used by cyclists, and return the roads to their original use of bus lanes and traffic lanes.
Local authorities all over the country have used the Covid pandemic and lockdowns to grab normal roads and turn them into cycle lanes.
I read with interest that the government is putting forward £3 billion for authorities to install more bus lanes and other traffic measures.
All the time, the normal traffic is getting squeezed into fewer and fewer lanes in cities and causing more and more congestion and pollution.
I said in a previous letter that it isn’t yet illegal to own or drive a car in this country, so why are motorists treated like second-class citizens in favour of cyclists and public transport?
It costs a fortune to buy, run and maintain a car and motorists are caned financially wherever possible by governments and local authorities through fuel tax, parking, road tax, insurance, etc.
So why would people pay all that money to leave a car on their drive and get on a bike or a dirty bus?
I watched a reality TV programme the other day in which the police got involved in a car chase with somebody driving without insurance.
When they eventually stopped him he had no licence, insurance or MoT. It was the 15th time he had been stopped for the same reasons.
It is estimated there could be a million drivers on the roads who shouldn’t be. Why doesn’t the criminal justice system get serious with these people and start locking them up, making it a serious deterrent from getting behind the wheel of a car illegally?
This would reduce the traffic naturally and be safer for the rest of us law-abiding motorists.
M Shepherd, Thurmaston