The new scheme would make it too dangerous for me to go out

Friday, 26th February 2021

• I AM a resident in Camden Mews, 93 years old, live alone, and can only walk with a rollator a short distance.

The mews has very narrow footpaths, partly obstructed by ongoing building works and rubbish bins.

At present I can only get safely out at all through Camden Park Road, and turn into North Villas which has broad, safe, pavements and very light traffic leading to Camden Square.

New traffic arrangements will cut off traffic from Murray Street, and from York Way into North Villas, thus leaving heavy through-traffic to squeeze through the tiny cobbled street of the mews.

This will make it too dangerous for me to get out for exercise, as I will not be able to avoid oncoming traffic quickly enough; it will also make my present chest inflammation very much worse in the resultant pollution.

In other words it will make my lockdown life unbearable. Other residents will suffer, too, and everyone I know has protested, without any effect.

No one I have spoken to in the mews, North Villas, Camden Square or Murray Street wants, needs, or has asked for, this chaotic scheme. But it seems Camden Council is going ahead anyway. Why?

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