• WITH the pitifully short consultation ending on October 22, very few people living on the Liverpool Road seemed to know about the Barnsbury/ Laycock LN, liveable neighbourhood, scheme for restricting access through the leafy streets of Barnsbury to reduce east-west traffic and forcing, because there is no other way, even more traffic along the Liverpool Road.

It’s admitted traffic damages hearts and lungs, as it is clearly identified in the proposal. Just not the lungs of this long 90 per cent residential road!

Amazingly few residents know what the scheme will mean to them. If they do they often say that however much they hate the idea, that no one will listen to them.

Some don’t know how to access the QR code to do a survey and find out what the scheme is. Many are confused by the overall green and safer streets idea and don’t understand what will happen to the roads that have to deal with the poisonous fall-out.

So worried residents have created posters to make the basic message clearer and giving the council survey QR code to make the information as accessible as possible.

It therefore a shock to find the informative posters, attached to owners’ railings etc have constantly been removed. Sadly a resident (who will benefit from the scheme) has been seen removing the well-intentioned posters. A miserable undemocratic thing to do!

Basically I guess it’s stealing or at the very least a cowardly act of vandalism. But isn’t it appalling that some people feel they can vandalise property in order to stop others understanding the impact of the scheme?

To do it, to make sure that the Liverpool Road residents and in fact so many other people remain unaware of the potential appalling damage to the hearts and lungs of 2,600 plus residents should yet more traffic be thrown down a road already badly impacted by changes to Highbury roundabout, well that is undemocratic at the very least.

D WHEELER, N1