'Sort the potholes before the cycle lanes,' says frustrated reader - your letters, plus a 1986 throwback of life at St Mary’s Church School

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Forget cyclists, fill the potholes!

I just want to throw a few questions in the ring concerning the ongoing absolutely atrocious pothole epidemic all across our region.

Firstly how can Wolverhampton Council and Sandwell Council justify spending more than four million between them on cycle lanes in Willenhall and Greatbridge/Dudley Port, when let's be honest and realistic how many people actually use cycles anymore as a main form of transport?

Try counting them on your daily commute. Only cycles you see is the antisocial people on illegal souped-up electric bikes riding like complete idiots mainly on footpaths scaring the hell out of pedestrians, especially the elderly.

And don't get me started on illegal scooter riders who do pretty much the same, and they get away with it.

Why? Because they know they can.

Surely the money spent on those cycle lanes would of been better used to try and sort this totally unacceptable pothole situation out.

Or is it just me who thinks this?

Lee Thomas, Brierley Hill

Roadworks will solve nothing

I read the queues at Burnt Tree are due to roadworks to introduce a bus sprint lane and a cycle lane. How will the bus sprint lane solve the congestion? And regarding the cycle lanes, we all know that these lanes will be used for parking by residents as with all cycle lanes.

Colin Hubbard, Dudley