St Paul’s Road crossing

• I AGREE with Meg Howarth (Now let’s look at the road dangers) and with G Xylander (Now we have traffic pile-ups, pollution and chaos), Letters, October 4.

I was crossing St Paul’s Road, outside the Hen and Chickens a few days ago and the lights were in my favour, that is, green for a pedestrian.

A large car came flying down from Holloway Road, ignored the stop light, and went straight through to St Paul’s Road. Part of the problem there is that the traffic lights are too high in the sky.

Another peril is at the crossing outside Highbury & Islington station. All too often, when the lights go in favour of people to cross, there are vehicles straddling the crossing as they cannot go any further.

How many people do we have to have knocked over before the powers-that-be wake up and sort this out?

I say to both London mayor Sadiq Khan and Cllr Claudia Webbe, Islington’s executive member for environment and transport, come and spend every day for a week and stand outside the charity shop at Highbury Corner and see for yourselves the chaos that you have caused.

If any of those responsible for the chaos lived on any of these roads, they would soon be up in arms about the extra noise, fumes, and traffic.

And again, thanks to Transport for London, an already poor bus service down St Paul’s Road has been made worse by taking the No 277 from going past Dalston.

They can run a night N277 past Dalston, all the way via Upper Street to the Angel and terminate in Baron Street, so why can’t they run the 277 along the same route during daytime?

And I can’t help but notice that for three or four weeks the countdown indicator on the east-bound bus stop in St Paul’s Road has been removed. Why? Is it now a state secret to know when the next bus is due?

JE KIRBY
Clissold Crescent, N16