• READERS may remember controversy over a proposed cycle path on Prince of Wales Road. The main flaws were that it allowed cycles coming down Haverstock Hill to cut the corner when turning left into Prince of Wales Road, riding over existing pavement and, although nothing in the documents said so, it required the removal of six traffic islands on Prince of Wales Road.

The consultation area was so limited it didn’t include even those living in Maitland Park or Queen’s Crescent. The scheme has now reached its statutory consultant stage. Mercifully the pavement cycling at the Haverstock Hill junction has been removed; how it was ever there merits an enquiry.

Importantly, the removal of traffic islands remains and still is not mentioned anywhere in the consultation. When it was omitted earlier it might have been forgiven on the grounds that it was overlooked. But this time it can only be explained as being a deliberate act of stealth.

Please will council leader Georgia Gould or cabinet member for improving Camden’s environment, Adam Harrison, say how that can be justified? If a scheme required the removal of cycle paths or car parking could that have been ignored? Of course not. Pedestrians it seems, simply don’t count.

NICK HARDING
NW5