‘Future-thinking policies aiming for a better environment for everyone’

• NICK Collin (LTNs just don’t work, August 25) is probably correct in his opinion that many of the comments on the London Borough of Islington consultation map of the Barnsbury and Laycock low traffic neighbourhood proposals were cut-and-paste.

When I looked, it was clear there were indeed many duplicate comments that bore no relevance to the specific locations referenced.

However these appeared to be both from those supporting and those opposed to the schemes, so their effect on the outcome is unclear.

But it certainly cannot be inferred, as Mr Collin does, that they artificially swayed the result in favour of public support.

There are lobby groups like Together and now KeepIslingtonMoving, opposed to LTNs, who urge their members to respond to these consultations. So perhaps that is a source of at least some of the “bombing” of the interactive map?

I have attended all the public meetings held to consult on the Barnsbury and Laycock proposals and it’s apparent there are campaign groups, more or less organised, who will try and out-shout those who disagree with them.

Statistics aside, what campaigners against LTNs fail to acknowledge is it isn’t a zero-sum game. It’s not a question of reducing traffic on residential roads and necessarily moving it onto bigger roads.

The whole point of such measures is to gradually, over time, decrease the overall volume of motorised traffic in favour of more sustainable ways of getting around.

These are future-thinking policies aiming for a better environment for everyone.

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