Letter: 'New contraflow cycle lanes are not needed'

However, once again we see national and local government making things unnecessarily complicated and ridiculously expensive for tax payers.

There should be no ‘traffic management, construction works, consultation, cycle facility creation’ and so on by BCP.

And despite the good work of BH Active Travel there really is no need for ‘wands, segregated steps or armadillos’.

Why do we over-engineer everything?

Just look across the Channel. In France the law is that if you are in a 30kph area then, with very few exceptions, cyclists can go up all one-way streets in the wrong direction.

Very effective and enjoyable it is too. Simple. No carnage. No money wasting.

At most BCP Council, using the ‘Transforming Cities Fund’ wisely, should be putting warning signs at each end of the one-way roads in question.

Attention should be focussed on other more genuinely complex priorities.

DOUG CRAMOND

Twemlow Avenue, Poole