• THE Evening Standard last week carried a story suggesting that roads such as Royal College Street which have cycle lanes and flower “baskets” see a sharp rise in their property prices? It’s a litany of fake news!

Typical of a story not checked out. The flower baskets were, within months, mostly wrecked by collisions and louts and became large ash trays too hard to clear out. Most flower troughs (not baskets) are now gone and not replaced.

At rush hours Royal College Street is a single-lane, one-way traffic jam, the 46 bus timetable impossible to keep to.

Emergency service vehicles also get stuck in traffic while a few cyclists benefit. Emissions from stationary traffic are worse than those from moving vehicles I believe.

It’s a disaster yet praised by those who don’t use it or live there. It’s also a scandal, a waste of public money at the altar of cyclists damaging our capital’s infrastructure. The way to profit is to sell and move from Royal College Street.
Living there is hell.

LESTER MAY
Camden Town, NW1