• MATT Hills isn’t the only person who wants the traffic islands back on Liverpool Road, (I tell my children it’s not safe to cross the road, June 11).

Some cyclists like myself want them back to help when turning right near a zebra crossing.

The changes on Liverpool Road were supported by the government and the Mayor of London supposedly to help cyclists with segregated lanes and extra space on the road past zebra crossings.

The problem is that Liverpool Road is not wide enough for space for cyclists and two lanes of four-wheel vehicles and a traffic island so the island has been removed.

Pedestrians are fobbed off with answers that they still have the zebra crossing and there is a 20mph speed limit on the road. We can all see that the crossings are too long for safety and the speed limit is not enforced.

It occurs to me that if we can’t have a central traffic island then perhaps we can have two traffic islands. The layout would be a cycle lane and traffic island on both sides of the road.

Between the two islands would be a single lane for the widest four-wheel vehicles so the drivers would have to slow down to pass through the single lane.

I suggest it must be worth trying this change in at least one place but more likely that the council will stall any improvement until an assessment of the whole cycle route takes place on a prearranged timetable.

ADRIAN WILLIAMS
Gibson Square, N1