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I like the idea of Holloway road and upper street including highbury corner, the A1, getting exhibition road treatment. I think roads where people walk and shop would be a improved if we encourage people to wander across from side to side and to chill in the space in between rather people having to negotiate streams of cars, then streams of cyclists just to cross the road. We need more time to learn how to use exhibition road and many more such roads.
In a short number of years petrol will be astronomically expensive, people will travel less and live and work locally and will wish to reclaim the spaces stolen by car culture. A big cycle lane along holloway road is too unambitious. The vision of the future is that of our public realm reclaimed for people