The Argus comment (March 26) made good points about the benefits of encouraging more cycling on the back of another successful funding bid to improve our transport infrastructure.

Unfortunately it couldn’t resist repeating the tired refrain about cyclists running red lights and hogging the road.

Nowhere else do we see new investment reported alongside a list of criticisms about people using that form of transport.

So may I suggest that when you next report money for new roads or better car parks you preface it with a list of driver transgressions such as below?

• Huge numbers of drivers break the law speeding, putting lives at risk
• Using a mobile phone while driving, endangering themselves and others
• Parking on double yellow lines causing congestion and blocking emergency vehicles
• Parking on pavements, obstructing pedestrians and damaging paving slabs putting the most vulnerable at risk of tripping
• Blocking bus stops, making it difficult for people with mobility problems to get on and off the bus
• Aggressive and dangerous driving, not giving way to pedestrians
• Crossing a side turning and physically threatening cyclists
• Driving the wrong way down one-way streets and through red lights.

This is not counting the impact on air pollution and the cost to the NHS of encouraging more driving.

At the same time, how about challenging those who keep peddling the myth about the ‘poor old motorist’ to back up their claims with facts (March 26). The last time I looked the costs of motoring had fallen in real terms while the cost of bus and train fares nationally continue to rise.

By all means have a debate, but let’s have it grounded in reality.

Chris Todd, Planning and Transport Campaigner, Brighton and Hove Friends of the Earth