Your letters:'€˜Pavement pirates'€™ are pains

Calls for more bike lanes for all those millions of “phantom cyclists” on today’s roads should be ignored — sadly though, due to political correctness such calls won’t be ignored!Politicians and overpaid, petty bureaucrats are far too engrossed in self-interest and/or too gutless to face the reality of today’s age of road transportation/people movement! Bicycles are as anachronistic as button-up booted ladies riding horses side saddle and household deliveries by horse and cart on Australia’s 21st century roads and highways! Because bicycles on today’s roads are akin to amusement park paddle boats sharing major shipping channels with behemoth iron ore carriers and oil laden super-tankers! Not to mention ultralight aircraft sharing the main runways of international airports with Jumbo Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s!Simple question: When the inevitable, “non-air polluting” all-electric, motor car finally arrives will all us pay-for-everything motorists get our roads back from all those bugger-all-paying cycling pedestrian-petrifying pavement pirates? Howard HutchinsMelbourne