Signs on a controversial combined cycleway and footpath have been replaced - after the old ones were deemed to be substandard.

Meanwhile, the highways department is applying for a traffic regulation order to allow cycling on the newly-widened pavement at Shore Road, Kentraugh.

A scheme to resurface a 2km stretch of Shore Road and widen the footpath to create a combined cycle and pedestrian way cost a total of £861,000.

But it has left some confused as the path appears too narrow in places to take both bikes and walkers.

At the end of October, bike signs were painted on the pavement and then promptly removed, with the Department of Infrastructure saying they were not up to standard.

Contractors have since returned to paint new signs.

They are wider than the older one and in one place the symbol extends almost to the kerb.

A spokesman for the DoI said: ’The cycling symbol was technically correct, and the paint acceptable, but the quality of workmanship was substandard. ’

In an email exchange with campaigner Trevor Cowin, DoI construction manager Gary Saunders said the signage installed complies with the approved symbols from the Traffic Signs Manual.

He said: ’The intention is that the footway will be used as a cycleway, and that at some point it becomes part of a larger network.

’It is appropriate that a TRO (traffic regulation order) is put in place to enable cycling on the pavement in this area and the draft order is being prepared.’

Mr Cowin questioned whether the pavements signs are lawful until the order has been approved.