• CHRIS Procter (The power of the LTN, February 25) misses my point entirely when he says my mile detour “is a clear example of how LTNs encourage people out of their cars”.

I do not need a vehicle to get from my front door to my back yard. But a delivery driver with a bulky item has this fresh challenge of a mile detour presented by the LTN.

Likewise residents in an emergency have to wait longer for ambulances, fire engines, taxis et al.

In the early days of the trade union movement, carters and deliverymen were central. It was the core mission of the Transport and General Workers’ Union to represent them.

Today the metropolitan elite in the higher echelons of the Labour Party no longer listens to the real workers like taxi and van drivers.

A hazy mirage of a vehicle-free future seems to attract them. Yet our roads are built for vehicles and we still need them to be in use and freely accessed.

PATRICK CARROLL, N1