The latest hare-brained scheme

Tracy Brabin’s latest hare-brained scheme is to create Active Travel Hubs - using £50,000 of tax payers money for each - to encourage more people to walk, wheel (?), and cycle.

- Martin J. Phillips, Leeds

If Ms. Brabin really wants to encourage people to move around in these ways my advice to her is:

Stop spending millions on cycle lanes on roads where few people cycle. Instead, use the money to fill in potholes on quieter roads where there is also less traffic for cyclists to worry about.

Most cyclists want to cycle away from the centre of places like Leeds not towards them.

Road surfaces are so bad that cyclists are having to use mountain bikes rather than road bikes. People on road bikes have to constantly swerve to avoid potholes which can put them in danger from other vehicles.

As for 'wheeling' - by which I assume Ms. Brabin means using buses - then she needs to stop companies like First Bus reducing the frequency of services.

Who is going to wait more than 10 minutes for a bus especially in Yorkshire weather? First Bus expects passengers to wait 40 minutes between buses and an hour in the evenings and Sundays.