‘One change is necessary to solve all the listed problems, that’s a reduction in traffic’

• DESPITE some recent stepping back from environmental commitments I believe the government’s commitment to net-zero transport by 2050 still stands (announced in the paper Decarbonising Transport – A Better, Greener Britain, 2021).

There Grant Shapps (not renowned for his green credentials) wrote “…transport is not just how you get around.

“It is something that fundamentally shapes our towns, our cities, our countryside, our living standards, our health, and our whole quality of life, it can shape all these things for good – or for bad.

“Bad is spending longer and longer stuck in traffic. It’s the huge increase in rat-running down roads which were never meant for it. It is millions of people literally, if slowly, being poisoned by the very air they breathe. Every one of these things also contributes to climate change.”

Shapps was the Conservative transport secretary and I’m sure any future Labour minister in that job would agree. Who, indeed, could disagree?

One change is necessary to solve all the listed problems, that’s a reduction in traffic, a change that Islington Council are steadily implementing, one LN, liveable neighbourhood, at a time.

It’s not a party political thing. It’s just something that must happen for the good of everyone currently alive, adults and children, and for future generations.

R WALFORD, N1