‘The disabled, the elderly, and those with young children, must not be penalised’

• GIVE a thought to the elderly and disabled.

I read the letters (LTNs are now shown to be the wrong way forward and Problem is the cars, May 7).

There is no mention of the trouble these schemes have caused to those with limited – or no – walking ability. Age UK came to collect my 81-year-old husband to take him to get his vaccine, a midday appointment.

Our street which was a quiet road is now a feeder street to St Paul’s Road. St Paul’s Road is completely blocked with traffic due to Highbury Corner.

It took Age UK one hour to get to St Paul’s Road and a further 30 minutes to get to the vaccination centre, a journey which should have taken 10 minutes.

He also missed an appointment at University College London Hospitals due to severe traffic problems.

Anecdotally this does not appear to be due to the forecasted surge of people going to work in their cars. Counting the vehicles from our house, it appears that delivery vans and lorries are the highest cohort.

The traffic situation is now far worse than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic. The pollution levels and the noise level from frustrated drivers are causing severe problems for the elderly and those with young children.

The disabled, the elderly, and those with young children, must not be penalised. We need traffic to flow not bottlenecks.

DR CHRISTINE MACKENZIE
Compton Road, N1