• MARY Coss’s failures to obtain Blue Badges (You have to have one foot in the grave to get a Blue Badge, November 5) is shocking.

She needs to contact the legal advice service within Camden Irish Centre on 020 7916 2222.

The Tribune, through its letters pages, has drawn attention for over a year to the dangers faced by pedestrians using the area around Highbury and Islington station.

Your report (Blind are put at risk by ‘cyclists cutting Corner’, November 5) shows those in authority are ignoring this problem.

The cycle crossing runs adjacent to the pedestrian crossing. There is not a picture of a bike painted on the road within the lines of the cycle crossing to clearly indicate its use.

The pedestrian crossing lacks a picture of a bike with a cross through it to indicate that it’s forbidden to ride bikes there. There is no signage on the ground or elsewhere leading up to the crossings, which would inform all of designated use.

I am usually verbally abused for pointing the cycle crossing out to cyclists and one food delivery cyclist dismounted and advanced to assault me for daring to do so. Luckily the lights began to change, and I was able to travel back over the crossing with the flow of traffic protecting me.

The paved area, outside the food outlets which need to assist in curbing these cyclists, is a swimming pool during rain.

Although sighted and fit, I have had some near-misses by cyclists demanding right of way. It is not obvious it’s a pedestrian area, as again there are no pictures painted on the paving slabs showing riding cycles and e-scooters is forbidden, and no “pedestrian-only area” notices.

This area’s design invites cyclists and e- scooters to travel from Upper Street, across the paved area, and exit over the pedestrian crossing into Highbury Fields and its pavements.

Islington Council made the idea of cyclists on the pavement acceptable by their introduction of pavement parking for bikes and acceptance of riding on the pavement to the parking point. It’s time they awoke from their long lockdown and stepped up to their responsibilities.

The London mayor, who pronounced the area “safe”, needs to make his words a reality. And the council must contact food delivery firms and ensure their employees will not ride on the footpath.

RÓISÍN NÍ ĊURRÁIN
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