• ALONG with the raised pollution, convoluted routes, and massively-increased journey times for essential medical appointments so eloquently described by Bernard Miller (My contribution to greenhouse gas emissions has skyrocketed, July 29), another result of the closure of Grafton Road has been to turn the section from Queen’s Crescent to Prince of Wales Road into a race track.

As fewer vehicles can use the road, many remaining cars and motorcycles (often without silencers and late at night or early in the morning) pelt up or down the road at high speed, braking abruptly only when they see the bend and parked cars in the final stretch.

The council’s forcing of extra traffic onto gridlocked Kentish Town Road also means that emergency services now have to use Grafton Road as their only practicable north-south route.

Still, at least they’ll be on hand if an aspiring Nigel Mansell or Lewis Hamilton misses the bend and comes to grief at the Inkerman Road chicane.

DON KELLER
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