• I AM a cyclist and a father of two school-age children and have lived in this immediate area of London for more than 20 years.

The proposed blocking of Judd Street at Euston Road and of Hunter Street at Lansdowne Terrace will be a nightmare for thousands of residents living in the area.

It will make delivery to and from our homes immensely difficult and make access for family, friends and emergency services hugely complicated.

This is without considering the health and safety implications arising from the restrictions to ambulances and police vehicles within the area bounded by Great Ormond Street, Gray’s Inn Road and Southampton Row. In effect you are proposing to kettle the thousands of inhabitants of this area.

The supposed logic for the decision is all the harder to understand since the area is already effectively closed to almost all through-traffic by a well organised arrangement of one-ways, no entries and left/right turn restrictions which has been developed over many years in proper consultation with the community.

The cycling “green” credentials of the decision remain very unclear – all the more so since cyclists already enjoy a very good – and very popular – route southwards into the area and a popular east-west route along Guilford Street.

What possible benefit does the proposed scheme add? I can see none. More importantly, what has happened to the consultation principle in this case?

There appears to have been almost no attempt to consult meaningfully – either directly with the people who live in the area or via the tenants’ and residents’ associations and the like.

JCR AUTY
Millman Street, WC1