Cycle path offers us healthier and cleaner travel options

IN response to George Pitblado’s letter regarding the Aberdour Road track (Dunfermline Press, November 9) – I for one am using the Active Travel Corridor almost daily.

I cycle and walk on the path and it’s nice to see so many others doing the same including kids walking and cycling to school, parents with buggies walking alongside each other and chatting, mobility scooter users and other various wheelers.

It’s so good to have a path that enables and encourages pedestrians, cyclists and others to get out in the fresh air in a safer, greener, healthier and cleaner way.

We all benefit from this, including motorists who will encounter fewer cyclists on the road, thereby making their journeys more pleasant too.

I’m very much looking forward to the second phase of the project which will provide a segregated cycle path on the stretch of road from the Blacklaw Road roundabout to Hospital Hill where it will connect with existing mixed use paths.

Safer, greener, healthier and cleaner travel options are good for us all. See you out there.

Tom Fahey,

Evershed Drive,

Dunfermline. of the UK. Perhaps if more people did what I did and respond to the public notices published every Thursday in the Press then some of these orders could be stopped before they are passed into law by the council.

Do I come from the village? The answer is no. However, I have a connection with the village. I have an aunt who lives on Hawthorn Bank and I have been visiting her regularly for the 44 years of my life so far.

Therefore I drive in and around Carnock on a fairly regular basis and with this in mind I feel that I am certainly allowed a say on the proposed traffic orders throughout the village. The vast majority of people who pass through Carnock are like myself and drive at an appropriate speed when in the village. Like anywhere you will get one or two idiots, but the police should be identifying them and taking appropriate action where necessary.

At the end of the day the councillors have unanimously overturned my objection and gone ahead with the 20mph. Whilst I might still disagree with that decision I respect their decision and that is local democracy in action.

What I do not like is the attitude, such as calling members of the public vexatious or questioning if they come from the area.

This shows the councillors in a very arrogant light and shows that they are certainly not prepared to listen to the public or hear their views and that they want to press ahead with their own often political and ideological agendas. Alastair Macintyre,

Webster Place,

Rosyth.