Readers are split over the benefits of removing a traffic lane in Frome St to create a separated bikeway. The correspondence was sparked by our story on Tuesday.

JULIAN KELLY: Your correspondent, Angelique Ivanica, asks where she and her customers can park to access her Pirie St office. How about parking in a near-city park and ride? Simple and cheap. Or free if you ride your bike in and you can chain it up outside the front door.

MYRA HOOD: “With that section of Frome, from Carrington to Pirie, the traffic flow is only 8,500 to 13,000 daily and even though we acknowledge there will be some impact, we don’t think it will be too significant.”

Driving this path every day I cannot believe that this is a quote from someone. There is already a build-up of traffic on Hutt and Pulteney streets at peak hour which overflows into Frome St from right at this point. It will be a significant problem.

ELSPETH REID: Here, here Richard Abbott! We have massive roads languishing in the CBD to provide for our car-oriented city: the distances and spaces are so massive that anyone in their right mind would shy away from riding a bike and the actuality bears this out. On these wide expanses of road one rarely sees a cyclist. So millions of dollars are spent on complete white elephants, while worthwhile projects are not attempted.

One writer advocates improving/increasing bike roads within the parklands – this means, to me, that the parklands are therefore under threat of being encroached upon by bitumenised bike paths to ruin the trees, shrubs, ecology and peace. There will be the problem of pedestrian versus cyclist, and only the other day I was nearly run over and severely injured by a cyclist who clearly thought I should stop walking altogether and get off the path completely so he could continue at high speed on linear park.