• YOUR front page headline (Town Hall wages war on drivers, February 1) could be translated to say “Camden will milk drivers for even more cash”.

Here are a few reasons. They have spent the best part of 40 years narrowing the roads causing cars to sit in queues of traffic.

The 20mph speed limit is dogma gone mad, it is the most polluting speed for a combustion engine of any type. It has also be proved in Holland to negatively affect driver concentration; that’s why we get so many rear-end shunts at slow speed.

They continue to use leaf-blowers, that is equivalent to driving a HGV to Birmingham for every hour of use, (not to mention the awful substances such as bird faeces blown at and breathed in by passers-by). Their bin trucks and many vans run on diesel.

All plant (machines used “off-road” such as building sites and generators) run on diesel and are exempt from the emission standards demanded for vehicles.

They do nothing to stop cars at “carless” developments such as the new school on Maygrove Road and the new flats between the railway lines on West End Lane, let alone the taxis parked up, with diesel engines running, on double yellow lines outside their offices on Pancras Road and Goodsway.

Pollution is an international problem that requires national and international solutions. I do not own a car. I drive a HGV with plant around London.

GEORGE CURLEY
Iverson Road, NW6