A cyclist has posted a video of a near miss on a shared lane, just to give an idea of the dangers cyclists are exposed to on Maltese roads.

The video shows a cyclist pedalling on the inner lane as a car overtaking on the inside narrowly misses him.

The video was taken on the newly-opened Tal-Balal Road, which over the past days has come under fire by cyclists – first because a cycle lane ended in a wall and later the Bicycle Advocacy Group described the cycle lanes as being unsafe.

The cyclist who posted the above video on Facebook, Paolo Cassar Manghi, writes: “I will stop complaining when Ian gets on a bike and tries what he boasts about. This is what sharrows ("shared lanes") look like on arterial roads, especially during off-peak hours. An outdated concept in the rest of the world.

"What could have been a 2-lane road, a row of trees, a segregated bike lane and a promenade, has become a 4-lane motorway until the next bottleneck.”