A CYCLING campaign group has asked a Transport for London chief to take back comments he made about a stretch of road where a 28-year-old cyclist was killed.

Daniel Harris, who lived with girlfriend Cecilia Dominici in Wanstead, died from multiple injuries after he was hit by a coach in an Olympic Games Lane at the junction of Ruckholt Road and the A12 near Leyton in August.

The London Cycling Campaign group is unhappy about comments made by TfL commissioner Peter Hendy to the London Assembly’s transport committee, which it says implied that Mr Harris should not have been on the stretch of road where he was killed.

In a letter to Mr Hendy, it said: “We note that you said that it was intended that the two lanes of roadway would be Games Lanes for the exclusive use of games traffic and that cyclists were intended to use the pavement beside the road.

“In practice, the changes made to the road layout and markings in July failed to direct cyclists to the pavement.”

It said any responsible cyclist would have reasoned that cycling on the pavement at the point where Mr Harris was killed would have been illegal and continued to use the road, as he did.

“We therefore believe that the information conveyed to the London Assembly Transport Committee was incorrect and ask that TfL set the record straight,” it adds.

The Guardian has asked TfL to comment.