Sir, – As many of the good burghers of Sandymount seem not best pleased with their proposed new cycle lanes, can I suggest that Dublin City Council divert its attention and resources to communities that would actually welcome such infrastructure.
Where I live, in the north city centre, 77 per cent of households don’t have a car, yet our streets are clogged with polluting, noisy and dangerous traffic trundling back and forth to suburbia.
The controversy simply reinforces the misperception that cycling is a discretionary, middle-class, recreational pursuit, whereas we actually need it to get around. – Yours, etc,
GAVIN DALY,
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Dublin 1.