‘The air quality in the LTN in Highbury seems to be greatly improved’

• LTNs, low traffic neighbourhoods, should be seen as part of more general incremental schemes to reduce pollution and halt the rate of global warming.

The recent COP27 in Egypt revealed this dramatically when drawing up an agreement for richer polluting countries to compensate poorer countries that only suffer the effects of pollution without contributing to it.

This global pattern is reproduced on a much smaller scale in London. As a result, far from reducing the current programmes affecting car users, they should be increased and enhanced.

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, with his proposal for increasing the scope of the ULEZ, ultra low emission zone, scheme, appears to be of the same mind.

Of course, it is difficult to regulate the way atmospheric pollution moves around in Islington and London, let alone the world.

But I can only say that the air quality in the LTN in Highbury – where I live – seems to me to be greatly improved.

ROGER HARTLEY
Aubert Park, N5