SIR - Having begun my working life on Eldon Place, just off Manningham Lane, I chanced a nostalgic trip.

The fine old buildings are still there but the drive out of the centre was depressing. Is this really what we are happy for visitors to the city to see as a main gateway?

Can it have escaped the attention of councillors and officers alike that this route is an embarrassing dump? Rather than Cllr Ross-Shaw bang the tub for yet more useless, expensive cycle lanes, would it not be better if he focused his vast regeneration “expertise” on the real issues?

Steve Wilson, Lenton Villas, Idle