WHILE bikes ridden on pavements or the wrong way down one-way streets or through red lights are sometimes the result of anti-social behaviour, it is also often a reaction to the lack of safe and reasonable cycling provision.

The fact this is an issue requiring a police crackdown shows there is significant demand for improved cycling facilities in and around Brighton which is not currently met.

I often see cyclists going the wrong way at the bottom of Trafalgar Street. From my own experience, it is often more dangerous to follow the one-way system into Sydney Street than it is to go the wrong way into Trafalgar Street, owing to other road users ignoring my right of way at this awkward junction. At the Level, the complicated cycle path system is confusing and I never know what is or is not a legitimate cycle route on the pavement. The official cycle path to Lewes shares the pavement completely unsegregated, in parts, which suits neither pedestrian nor bike rider.

Surely it is not beyond our traffic engineers' abilities to design and implement cycling contraflows on one-way streets and to provide good quality, safe and easy-to-use cycle paths?

-Paul Early, Ashton Rise, Brighton