• REFERRING to the poor state of some of our pavements and how difficult they are to use, J Barton’s February 3 letter leads us to a solution, (It’s safe to walk on the road, February 3).

It points out that parts of Islington benefit from the low traffic brought about by the PFS, people-friendly streets, programme. In streets with low traffic people can avoid difficult pavements by simply walking in the road.

We certainly often do that, but in Barnsbury there are many local streets with dreadful pavements and lots of fast-moving traffic; for example, Islington Park Street, Bewdley Street, Offord Road, Thornhill Road, etc.

Even self-assured people would not walk the road on these streets, so the less confident – and those with children – certainly would not consider it. On these streets we are all banished, single-file, to the horrible pavements.

The planned LVs, liveable neighbourhoods, will reduce the traffic on all streets, thus making even Islington Park Street, etc, somewhere everyone can walk safely and comfortably, truly “liveable”.

R WALFORD, N1