AS another resident of Sale I agree with the letter planners get it wrong again' (Readers Write, October 26). The reader complains of the traffic being snarled up because of parking both sides.

On Northenden Road the one way section outside the parade of shops is particularly bad.

The cycle lane is placed next to car parking bays used by shoppers to nip to the shops from early in the morning to the evening. Also the bays hidden by the blind bend are used by lorries in the morning. As a cyclist I daily avoid this cycle lane in Sale Moor outside the shops as it is right next to the parked cars with the occupants opening the doors wide (without looking) to nip to the shops. Also I would be compromised and squeezed on rounding the blind bend when confronting the lorries.

How to improve: Yes! And very easily: Make the cycle lanes 2.5 metres wide with a door widths section next to the car parking bays hatched - to indicate to cyclists not to enter this danger zone. Alternatively, remove the cycle lanes completely; paint hatching on the road in the door zones and paint warning triangles with cycle icons in the middle of the road along all one-way sections.

For more information about this go to www.loveyourbike.org click on Highlights and blackspots' and then click on the sad face' next to Sale then click on more info'.

Richard Alderson - member Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign, Buckfast Road, Sale