• IT is good to see that Islington’s Labour councillors have realised that walking is good for our health.

After at least three decades as Labour councillor, Janet Burgess has seen the light, (Get fit, take a short walk, June 15). She’ll be advising us to take up cycling next (just joking).

But how are we meant to cross the Holloway Road end of Palmers Place, off the bottom of Holloway Road in front of Drayton Park? There is no way of crossing without risking being run over by some big metal box moving at speed.

How anyone on foot, but particularly the non-ideal pedestrian – people like me now that I am 60 – is meant to manage it I don’t know (I normally cycle it, since you ask, fast before left-turning vehicles at the traffic light get moving).

Yet people of all ages and physical ability, including children and those with shopping bags, run across that stretch every day, because shops, bus stops and homes are all around it.

So, now that we know that walking is good, is it intended that at Palmers Place we should carry on dodging the fast-moving metal boxes that never stop coming? That would satisfy the need for “brisk” walking, as recommended.

Or are we meant to go round in circles looking for a legitimate crossing as part of the latest Labour initiative to get us fit? And which of the two forms of sport does Councillor Burgess practice herself?

ANITA FRIZZARIN
Wedmore Gardens, N1