PLEASED that R B Bew thinks the Poole green bin service is a good service but is probably, like ourselves, fortunate enough to be able to afford it easily, but has he any thoughts of people less fortunate like widows and pensioners who are keen gardeners but can’t afford it.

In our road only nine households out of 42 thought it a good idea to pay.

They all have gardens and this meant that if the council provided all houses with green bins, with the extra money they are collecting, they would have over four times the amount of garden waste, and not a refuse lorry picking up from very few bins on every road (ours after 8.30pm, on overtime rates, no doubt.)

You say you are pleased with the extra money going into council coffers, did you see council employees working for 10 days recently with new kerb stones and resurfacing the pavements around the Civic Centre, making it a cycle track.

We pass it every day and have yet to see a cyclist on it, pedestrians very seldom use it and cyclists have to cross two lanes of traffic to get on it, and then again have to cross two lanes of traffic to get off it.

Money well spent? I think not.

Also in the middle of our road there is a 1ft diameter hole, deep enough to bring a cyclist off his bike coming down at 20mph in the dark.

A month ago the council painted round it in white for identification; why didn’t they bring a bucket of tarmac instead of a paint pot? That would have been money well spent.

KEN ADAMS, Glen Road, Parkstone, Poole