Narrow pavements? Walk on the road…

• I WAS interested in J Barton’s assurance (It’s safe to walk on the road, February 3) that LTNs, low traffic neighbourhoods, mean that it is perfectly safe to walk on the road in these areas.

Bearing this is mind, and as extending pavements to give pedestrians more room would make it difficult for the minimal traffic to move around, why have pavements in these areas at all?

In Walthamstow we have a “Mini-Holland” scheme which provides an opportunity to reallocate road space to uses other than vehicle lanes.

JEAN ANDERSON
Westbury Road, E17