• RED Lion Street, Dane Street and Bedford Row, post consultation update…

Camden councillors and officers remain blind to the consequences of their actions, namely the traffic jams on the arterial roads into which vehicles are channelled.

Residents have become apathetic recognising that they will not be listened to by those in power who are bent on pursuing their own agenda.

Enforcing LTN, low traffic neighbourhood, restrictions in this small historic enclave tucked between High Holborn and Theobalds Road may prevent the occasional queue of Ubers and satnav users in Red Lion Square but have a knock-on effect on residents, those with vehicles and those without.

These measures discriminate against those who are elderly, frail, disabled, who have difficulty walking and who cannot ride a bicycle.

Accessing local medical services, doctors or dentists and so forth, by a car of family or friend, or by taxi is fraught with difficulty and delays.

Journeys by ambulance or hospital transport are prolonged by negotiating the maze of
no-through roads.

Deliveries to local business, rubbish collection, etc, have become more difficult. These measures are strangling the local economy.

The proposed changes to Bedford Row, a fine historic avenue, will add yet another obstacle for residents to overcome.

It is understood that there is to be another meaningless “consultation” on making one end one-way.

There is no justification for blocking Dane Street, a tiny thoroughfare with few cyclists and pedestrians, but giving access to the Beckley car park.

Those of us parking in both the Beckley car parks and using Citadines car park, not to mention on the street, like rats in a trap, have to use convoluted routes, with vehicles large and small turning, taking more time on the roads, causing more pollution and using more fuel.

PATRICIA WAGER, WC1