The bicycle lane on the newly-restructured Mġarr road is dangerously narrow for bicycles and Infrastructure Malta will have to widen parts of it. The road that links Mġarr to Mosta has just had a major safety upgrade intended to avoid head-on collisions bet-ween vehicles. Yet, the new bicycle lane is so narrow that, at several points, it forces cyclists to rejoin the traffic. The president of cyclists’ NGO Rota, Daniel Vella, accompanied Times of Malta to the site to demonstrate the danger. “The number one reason people don’t reach for their bicycles is safety,” Vella said. “Before the road was constructed, we were consulted by Infrastructure Malta and the plan was to have one segregated cycle lane and a pavement for pedestrians.” But, instead, the road has two cycle lanes going in either direction and a footpath on one side. “As you can see now, it gets so narrow at times that you can’t go through with your bicycle and you end up in the car lane,” Vella said as he was forced to veer out. “This infrastructure is failing both bicycle users and car users, who cannot understand why this bike user is not in the cycle lane. How can they comprehend it? They cannot know that the bike...