The so-called Humpback Connector will not be completed in 2012 as the Capital Regional District claims.

It will be missing the most critical piece B次元官网网址� the expensive part along the E&N Railway between Millstream Creek and Selwyn Road.

There will still be no safe, convenient, direct route for cyclists between downtown Victoria and Langford.

ItB次元官网网址檚 analogous to not having a Johnson Street Bridge between Esquimalt and downtown and expecting motorists to detour through Burnside (only they donB次元官网网址檛 have to pedal) and still call it a B次元官网网址淒owntown Connector.B次元官网网址�

You donB次元官网网址檛 have a connector if it features pedalling a long, steep and tedious detour.

Only recreational cyclists have the luxury of being able to meander all over the place in their spare time. The Galloping Goose route, for example, adds 45 minutes to my commute.

It isnB次元官网网址檛 always a pleasure to be out there; sometimes itB次元官网网址檚 pitch black with sleet.

Cyclists need to get to work efficiently and with enough energy left to put in a dayB次元官网网址檚 work, or get home and make dinner like everybody else.

People who object to money being spent on bike lanes have a point. The whole exercise is in vain if you have sections that make would-be cyclists give up.

Cynthia Brossard

Langford