YOUR correspondent Gavin Haines is probably too young to remember that some of the major roads constructed just before World War Two included cycle paths separated from the main road by a grass reservation (Study suggests Britain’s cycle lanes often put cyclists at risk, Daily Echo, September 24).

Needless to say they were simply absorbed by road widening post-war.

Their major weakness was that they spilled the cyclists into the motor streams at roundabouts.

Further hazards of the cycle lanes along the main roads are the broken gutter tiles, the depressed drains and the broken glass and other litter that the cyclist is often forced to ride over.

GD TOWNER, Woolven Close, Poole