‘It is us pedestrians who seem to matter least to Transport for London’

• READING the letter (Little space for pedestrians compared with car drivers, December 1) from K Fallon made me want to echo those comments.

As someone who walks daily on Junction Road from the Holloway Road, I find the pavements dangerous and congested.

Imagine, for a moment, the crowds at a bus stop used by four bus routes (41, 234, 390, 210) on a narrow pavement where the paving slabs are uneven, with a Greggs and Costa licensed to put tables and barriers on the pavement; then add in the huge volume of fast traffic having got the green light at the Holloway Road junction, racing like F1 drivers released by the green flag.

Then put lots of pizza bikes parked on the double yellow lines nearby and the occasional funeral hearse parked outside the undertakers just by the bus stop.

Then turn your gaze longingly across Junction Road to the wide, tree-lined, pavement there with lots of space and a bus stop for just two buses (390 and 134).

It is a crazy situation and planners seem to have spent a whole lot of effort in designing Navigator Square to replace the old gyratory system, but just didn’t think about the pedestrians on this side of Junction Road at all.

We need action immediately – some kind of reconfiguring this part of Junction Road – as pointed out before.

It is us pedestrians who seem to matter least to Transport for London or council planners too busy planning cycleways for cyclists who ride the pavements anyway.

DAVID CURTIS
Giesbach Road, N19