Mr and Mrs Berwick, of Westminster Road, claimed (Letters, May 25) the Water End cycle scheme has been unsuccessful.

They castigated Coun Galloway, the executive member for city strategy, for this claimed “fiasco” and suggested cyclists are “thin on the ground”.

City of York Council’s highways team has recently installed traffic-counting loops. The knock-on effect of roadworks near Walmgate Bar suggests York is not far removed from gridlock.

To try and accommodate the existing levels of peak-time private car use, let alone try to cater for its further growth, will only precipitate gridlock sooner.

That is why York, like other urban local authorities, is using Government guidance, legal powers and cash incentives to promote alternative transport choices.

The next city strategy meeting, on June 1, will receive reports from the council’s transport planning team, including the outcome of the separate scrutiny review which Clifton ward councillors requested.

I have already read this on the council website, and its conclusions and recommendations differ in many respects from your correspondents’ views.

Proposals have recently been circulated for completion of the urban cycle ring route, of which Water End will form a vital part.

The increase in cycling already recorded along this section will then rise significantly.

Paul Hepworth, Windmill Rise, Holgate, York.