I noticed another of Croydon's anti-cycling practices the other day, in Whitehall Road near Thornton Heath Pond.

Most of the road is two way, so that buses can get in and out of the garage, but the last few yards are one way, to stop drivers using it as a rat-run. The council decided to make a kerb build-out at the far end to discourage them from disobeying this restriction, but would need to leave a narrow gap between the build-out and the kerb for drainage, to save having to dig another drain.

I suggested that they should make the gap wider so that cyclists could use it to ride in both directions, to avoid the busy roundabout at the pond, in accordance with Government and council policy, but although this would make the build-out smaller and thus save taxpayers' money, they said this would make it a cycle facility, so the money would have to come out of the cycle budget, in which there were no funds.

The council says it's strapped for cash at the moment, but that wouldn't matter as all money for cycle facilities comes from Transport for London, and they have £2million available for the purpose. So why hasn't Croydon got any of that money?

Some items in your latest edition (Guardian, July 28) are worthy of comment. Martin Taylor, the bus driver, says his worst nightmare is overtaking cyclists. So why does he do it? They'll only catch him up at the next jam. If cyclists veer out in front of moving vehicles, it's probably to pass an illegally parked car. What does he expect us to do? Ride into the back of it?

Shasha Khan's letter is excellent. I invite him (and anybody else) to a meeting of the Croydon Cycling Campaign, on the third Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm in the basement of Chatsworth House (the Unison headquarters) in Chatsworth Road near the junction with Mulgrave Road. London Cycling Campaign application forms are available for non-members.

Colin Howes Coulsdon