The administration is so dug in on this issue that accommodating sensible suggestions from people who support cycle safety as part of a balanced approach has become infinitely more difficult, even as the vaccine programme makes the justification for a dogmatic insistence on sticking to a plan conceived a year ago impossible to sustain. Properly planned and installed cycleways bring undoubted benefits – the new layout at Piershill being an example ─ but the question posed by Ms Boynton’s evidence is how many cycling injuries will it take to make the administration see sense? John McLella...