• MARIUS Reynolds indulges in King Canute thinking by believing the paved area around Archway hub is still windswept despite the changes (Road layout a wrong turn for bus passengers, April 21).

There can be wind occasionally when funnelled by the high-rise buildings.

Of course, very few people like change. I’ve been around that area for more than three decades now and I’ve got to know the bus stops and the crossings. I think we generally programme ourselves. Now we’ve got to learn all over again.

A one-way street beside McDonald’s has been reversed and is now subject to heavy traffic. If you don’t cross at the lights then you’ve got to be careful.

Where Highgate Hill meets Junction Road and Holloway Road near the Tube, the crossing seems to be wider now with the new paved area. It’s become riskier to cross against a red light.

Every day I see impatient people risking their lives, for you can’t see clearly down Junction Road for traffic due to parked cars and vans. Maybe a pedestrian refuge is needed there or else we have got to learn to wait for the lights, and that includes myself.

I use the bus and now I have to learn where the bus stops have gone to. That I accept.

The cycle lanes are excellent. Just look right and left. Before that we had people riding on the narrow pavements with the odd skateboarder and some on children’s scooters weaving in and out of the crowds.

I still think this area has been transformed for the better. I notice people from other parts of Europe coming out of the Premier Inn being quite taken by this new look.

WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Lulot Gardens, N19