AT the end of your article 'Cyclists' signs of despair' (LET, February 11), a spokesman for Blackburn Borough Council is quoted as saying: "If people want to raise the issue they should write to the director of development services."
That is precisely what CyCEL - the Cycling Campaign for East Lancashire - has done on six ocasions last year.
Four of these letters were about the dangerous conditions being created for cyclists in scheme after scheme on Blackburn's roads - Church Street, for example, and now Saunders Road and Montague Street.
Two were about lack of cycling parking and poor access to King William Street and the Boulevard in the planned changes.
The department is clearly failing to communicate. It also has little sense of direction, no clear strategic aims and seems to ignore both government policy and even its own council's commitments given in numerous policy statements.
It is little wonder that we have been driven to the Press.
R FIELD, Cycling Campaign for East Lancashire, Livingstone Road, Blackburn.
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