With regard to the letter about the new cycle lanes in Grand Avenue (Letters, March 17), I would like to ask: who are the cycle lanes for?

They are 5ft wide, you could drive a Smart car up them.

How do disabled people or people with wheelchairs or buggies cross the road?

Because the carriageway is so narrow, when you are waiting to park in the middle section you hold up oncoming traffic, causing traffic to pile up behind you. What happens when the rubbish is collected or the supermarkets make a delivery? Does the traffic have to queue up behind these vehicles?

What a shame to spoil two such beautiful avenues. What is the point? Are there really that many cyclists in Hove?

  • Corinne Blass, Nevill Road, Hove

James Jarvis is spot on with his comments regarding the cycle lanes in Grand Avenue, Hove (Letters, March 17). You only have to look at Palmeira Square to see the way Brighton and Hove City Council views motorists.

Cars are now funnelled into a single lane with the consequent tailbacks of stationary vehicles polluting the atmosphere. It seems to be the trend in Brighton and Hove to create pinch points at junctions which were originally two lanes and now are just one.

How visitors to the city put up with the queues to get to the seafront after travelling down the A23 is beyond me.

  • Peter G Sexton, Slonk Hill Road, Shoreham