‘It should no longer need mentioning that car users are responsible for the hundreds of people killed and injured each week on UK roads, not people on bicycles’ 

• IT made a change to see four letters appear in the CNJ of July 6 counteracting, to a degree, the tiresome stream of cyclophobic and *Car-Blind* bigotry, now routinely taking up space in the letters pages.

The ongoing demonising of both cycling and public provision of hire bikes manifests in ongoing and deliberate abuse of hire bikes themselves and also the ongoing plummeting standards of driver behaviour evidenced by routine speeding and excess usage.

Like one of your letter writers (Watch out, cars about on Hampstead Heath, July 6), I, too, was shocked to walk on Hampstead Heath last Sunday to find a car park on Parliament Hill; it is apparently necessary to use a car now to transport a kite!

Elsewhere in Camden this week I was struck by how dangerous motor traffic is as it races down Parkway to beat the traffic lights, passing pedestrians at high speeds and close proximity.

While the letter from the woman on Highgate West Hill (The 20mph speed limit needs to be enforced, July 6), repeated her complaint about speeding, she perversely included cyclists as perpetrators rather than the victims (few would cycle on this violently intimidating route with children).

It should no longer need mentioning that car users are responsible for the hundreds of people killed and injured each week on UK roads, not people on bicycles.

It is time for Camden to accelerate its approach to through-traffic management, but also extend this to policy for car storage both in public places and on private land.

When we travel we make a choice as to how we travel. This is dictated by the disproportionate amount of space, money, administration and resources given to private car usage and ownership; which “dis-enables” those who want or need to move under their own steam or indeed use the bus.

It remains the council’s job, more than ever, to stem the tide of abuse of public space, and implement plans drastically to reduce through-traffic in both the centre of Camden and residential areas; and to act on private and public storage of private cars in tandem with plans for car co-ops.

STEVEN EDWARDS, NW5