‘Does Living Streets realise that teaching children to cross with the green man is no longer sufficient because so many cyclists and scooters ignore it?’

• HAVING read Nick Harding and Don Keller’s letters (Almost nothing is said about bus passengers on these websites and Put the needs of pedestrians and bus users above those of people on bikes, June 1), I feel compelled to provoke a response from Living Streets (LS).

If the Arts Council can withdraw funding from the English National Opera, that fulfils its brief, how can LS continue as a charity with a stated mission “to achieve a better walking environment and inspire people to walk more?”

We not only have cars to worry about but now something worse: unregulated cyclists and scooters and a London mayor and so-called walking and cycling commissioner who pretend that the interests of cyclists and pedestrians are the same.

— LS approved of the dangerous SUBBS, shared use bus boarders, knowing cyclists will not stop for pedestrians on a protected cycle route, especially with no red lights.

— LS allowed the contract with Lime to be renewed with no objections.

— LS’s campaign to introduce “a hierarchy in The Highway Code” is a meaningless joke. It was always obvious pedestrians had priority in The Highway Code, but cyclists and e-scooter riders are ignorant of the code and it is not obligatory for anyone to read it.

— Did LS campaign for a commitment for the police to enforce The Highway Code?

— Did LS oppose the unnecessary and largely unused cycle lanes on Haverstock Hill despite overwhelming opposition?

— Does LS realise that teaching children to cross with the green man is no longer sufficient because so many cyclists and scooters ignore it?

— Does LS realise that pedestrians are walking less in London because it’s so tiresome?

It feels like a video game where the walker is a target, constantly dodging cycles and scooters, even on the pavements and on zebra crossings.

JOYCE GLASSER, NW3