HAS City of York Council gone totally crazy with its road restructuring schemes? Not only has the council turned two lanes into one outside the Royal York Hotel approaching Leeman Road, and created yet another cyclepath almost as wide as the road, but they've done it again on Clifton Moorgate.

The junction that meets Water Lane, formerly a two-lane traffic light junction, has recently become a one-lane road with a cyclepath on the roadside.

Can they tell me, and many other angry commuters on Clifton Moor, why we have two cyclepaths next to each other - one on the road and one on the path?

We actually need two car lanes to clear the now heavily congested Clifton Moorgate during rush hours.

I'm a keen cyclist, as well as a keen driver, but most of the time many cyclists don't even use the cycle lanes. I've seen many using the footpaths despite it being illegal to do so.

Jason Brant,

Dee Close,

Woodthorpe, York.

Updated: 10:13 Friday, March 29, 2002