Councillor Adrian Dennis's public statement that pedestrians are given top priority by the council is welcome (Guardian, July 14).

Can he confirm that the council will now move quickly to introduce safe pedestrian crossing facilities at Coombe Road's junctions with the High Street and Park Hill Road?

Regarding other priorities, the new Croydon plan that Coun Dennis is introducing says cycling must be placed after walking, above public transport and finally private motor vehicles.

The Minerva town centre scheme clearly breaches the transport hierarchy, because while the first and third priorities walking and public transport may benefit, the second priority, cycling, is simply eradicated.

Banishing cyclists on to even longer dangerous detours on highways like Wellesley Road cannot be spun as a valid interpretation of the hierarchy.

Coun Dennis was chairman of the planning and environment committee in June 1998 when he signed the council's visionary cycling strategy, and will doubtless agree it is regrettable the strategy implementation is neither complete nor on schedule.

Coun Dennis is soon joining the council's cycling forum and as a key decision maker on council transport policy and practice he is in position to ensure that these pressing issues are adequately considered and resolved.

Croydon Council can't just be not anti-cyclist'; it must be positively pro-cycling if the targets in Coun Dennis's cycling strategy are to be achieved.

LIZ MINCER Cycling for All South Croydon