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My area has been ruined

Our narrow local roads suffer from boy racers, aggressive and dangerous drivers, street crime and thefts, people and building works, we can’t get to see a doctor, long hospital waits, traffic clogs up our roads and still you add more high rise buildings and people with inadequate parking facilities. The infrastructure is never improved. Stop this; a build new towns with appropriate infrastructure and space. No aspects of my neighbourhood has been useful during lockdown and as an older person, I am 76, there has been no support I am aware of or if there was it was not well advertised. We are now grossly overcrowded in the suburbs, we chose to live here because it was not overcrowded . If the roads are not to be improved and parking places not adequately supplied perhaps it is time to limit the amount of cars per household in London? London can’t support sometimes 4 or 5 cars per house. Bring back day and evening classes so we have something to occupy ourselves with and to improve our minds and learn new skills, all these have stopped. We used to have social clubs, now long gone. We have been locked in for over a year and there is nothing for us as older single people out there now. We need a sports facilities for the older person, lots for younger people but our nearest sports centre with a sports court is 6 miles away and an hours travelling time which seems ridiculous in London. There won’t even be anywhere to park if we want to get the tube into central London as you now want to build over all the carparks. We aren’t all able to walk to bus stops and stand and wait. Perhaps when we can hardly move and we are in our 80s we can go to the lunch clubs and seated exercise classes at local churches. that’s about all there is left.

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This is really sad to read.
Those of us who are young and active and listening to your words, can’t imagine what it’s like not to be able to stand at a bus stop. One day we will but we shouldn’t be creating so many new divisions between...

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This is really sad to read.
Those of us who are young and active and listening to your words, can’t imagine what it’s like not to be able to stand at a bus stop. One day we will but we shouldn’t be creating so many new divisions between old and young.
I agree that creating congestion does not aid society as a whole.
LTNs are creating so many side effects. We can say they are not “intended” in one sense, but in another sense they are, because anyone can see that older people who need to drive / to travel further to access appropriate services will be disproportionately affected.

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