An illustration of how the new Highbury Corner could look

• I COULD not agree more with Roy Prentice, (TfL spins as the day-to-day chaos mounts at the corner, September 14).

We have Transport for London saying that it will improve safety for people using Highbury Corner. But safe for whom? What is actually happening is that the road layout is being put back to how it was in the late 1950s/early 1960s.

But in fact it will be worse because at least before the roundabout was built Upper Street linked with Holloway Road and Canonbury Road met up with St Paul’s Road outside the public house at the junction where traffic turns left to join the roundabout at present.

As the roundabout was built some nearly 70 years ago, when traffic was far lighter than it is today, it does not seem to make sense to me to put it back to those days.

For instance, I was travelling on a bus from Nag’s Head towards Highbury Corner at 5pm today and the tailback of traffic was from Drayton Park towards Highbury Corner, with a similar tailback going in the opposite direction. Perhaps this is the sort of improvement that TfL wants.

It appears that whoever planned this work does not use this area. Has he or she ever seen for themselves what traffic is like? I don’t doubt that if this was done where these so-called experts live they would soon be up in arms about it.

JE KIRBY
N16