An illustration of how the new Highbury Corner could look

• I MUST agree with comments about the lack of protest by Islington councillors over Highbury Corner, (Where is the campaign to bring back our 277 buses?, July 6).

This is because Islington Council is a partner with Transport for London in the so-called redevelopment of Highbury Corner roundabout, so it is not going to bite the proverbial hand.

I have tackled TfL over halting the 277 bus at Dalston Junction by suggesting that it could have been extended to Angel, as with the new 277 night bus. I also suggested that TfL could have extended the 277 to the college in Camden Road.

TfL’s reply was that it hasn’t got the budget to fund the extra buses and drivers needed to do this.

Yet this is an organisation which can find the money to take the N277 night bus to and from Angel along Upper Street, St Paul’s and Balls Pond roads to Dalston and then on to its normal terminus.

As for emergency vehicles being able to cut across the closed-to-vehicular-traffic west side of the new layout at Highbury Corner, I don’t think they will be able to do this, (Will emergency vehicles have a right of way across the new pedestrian area at Highbury Corner?, July 6).

The only people able to do this will apparently be the moped muggers – to whom the normal rules of the road don’t apply anyway – as they snatch bags and mobile phones with impunity.

JE KIRBY,
N18