• YOUR report (Anti-traffic measures set for trial in 2022, September 16) has within it a fiction of consultation and engagement going on.

Eighty-one per cent of residents, it is claimed, support the “demand” that Steve King and his friends make.

Well, apart from the very non-specific demands that are being made, no details there at all, the very “consultation” that is claimed to have been done is flawed. Not one of our neighbours have taken part in any survey, or had details of any proposals.

What would be interesting would be to have a total number for residents in the area, how many were surveyed and responded, and what their views were as a percentage of the total resident population.

So, for example, if 10 per cent of residents had been consulted, and 81 per cent of them supported the non-detailed proposals, that would still be only 8.1 per cent in favour of an unknown proposal.

We have lived here for nearly 30 years, eight in Dartmouth Park Road, and 21 in Chetwynd Road and the traffic flow and numbers have considerably reduced over that period.

And we live at the Highgate Road end of Chetwynd Road, where traffic, if anywhere, is at its worst in the morning rush hour, and it is only busy between 8am and 9am.

It queues between Highgate Road and the Highgate Road entrance to Twisden Road, whereas years ago the traffic jammed all the way to the Chetwynd Road / York Rise junction and into the shop area of York Rise as well.

Anybody can suggest a small-scale change without considering the effect on a wider area, and yet here we are living in a great world city which needs people to circulate for work and business and leisure and pleasure.

Far better for your contributor to see how mummies driving their precious darlings in Chelsea tractors through the area, and clogging up roads twice a day during term time, can be discouraged.

WILLIAM SILVER
Chetwynd Road, NW5