• PRO-TRAFFIC campaigners in St Peter’s claim to be supporting boundary road residents in calling for the low traffic neighbourhood to be removed, (LTN survey report is flawed, January 21). Two points need to be made on this.

First, implicit in the their argument is that boundary road residents don’t actually want more cars on their roads, so they seem like odd bedfellows.

Secondly, the results of the St Peter’s trial showed traffic was down 1 per cent overall on boundary roads.

So why exactly do pro-traffic campaigners think removing the LTN would benefit the very people they claim to be supporting?

Residents on main roads are helped if people drive less, not by encouraging a return to unrestrained car use, thereby driving up traffic on boundary roads, by the minority of residents who actually own a car pushing up traffic on boundary roads.

ANDREW WILLETT
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