• MARK Jenkins’s letter (LTNs fail on pollution and safety, October 24), was another unfortunately misguided, misleading example of motor myopia, somewhat missing the point, that Camden Council should be congratulated for doing what they can, and leading the way in transforming the borough for the better.

Car registration numbers have doubled in the last 30 years, now at 42 million; and, whether internal combustion engine or electric vehicles, are clearly an escalating problem.

It is, of course, perverse to suggest that low traffic neighbourhoods, do not reduce harm and deaths while studies show they not only reduce road violence impacts, but also enable healthy, active mobility.

Children walking or cycling to school arrive in a far better state of mind to begin their day; it is only reasonable then that we need all action to ensure that road danger is eliminated.

A week ago I had a good fortune to walk down Swain’s Lane, temporarily closed to through motor traffic. The peace and calm was profound; you could experience this historic green corridor something as it must have been a century ago.

A couple of days later I cycled up the same hill but paused at the gate of Waterlow Park disappointed to find the temporary closure was no longer in place.

While I waited there for a few minutes, a wave of motor traffic, including two huge heavy goods vehicles, numerous cars and a van, passed within feet.

These two contrasting examples, for me, show why Swain’s Lane is an excellent candidate for through-traffic removal as part of the Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood scheme; to restore calm and tranquillity to a popular tourist destination, and what would be a hugely desirable and picturesque walking and cycling route between Highgate village and Hampstead Heath.

Elsewhere in Camden the proposed Parkway bus lane scheme, far from being shelved (as Mark Jenkins hopes), is the very least that is needed for this other world class destination, the natural solution for diners and visitors being a bus gate.

Just as we hear of Rachel Reeves’s positive advice to implement road-pricing for the United Kingdom, and, while Angela Rayner provides London mayor Sadiq Khan with the powers he needs to pedestrianise Oxford Street, perhaps the government should also recognise and support, exemplary councils like Camden, as they take essential, and initially thankless, action to alleviate the resource / space and energy consumption by the largest UK greenhouse gases emissions sector, cars and vans; and at the same time restoring our neighbourhoods to places for communing and meeting rather than as mere “drive-throughs”.

STEVEN EDWARDS, NW5