Your cyclists are young, male, internet savvy? Who does the most shopping? Women -spending money on food for family, things for their homes, using local fashion retailers, hairdressers, beauty salons, activities for children, family trips to restaurants etc. That's life!

Where do you usually shop? Sorry, but with the best will in the world you just aren't as valuable to most of our local businesses as are the mums in their cars

Good Grief! I'm incredulous - is it still the 1950's where you live? It's been quite some time since my mum did my shopping for me.

I frequently shop in Palmers Green, and also Wood Green, Enfield or wherever I am between work and home. Sometimes that will be in a car and frequently it will be on a bike. I am both a cyclist and a driver - like many, if not most, cyclists.

What is to be gained by setting up a false conflict between cyclists and motorists? Or between cyclists and shop owners? Or for that matter between men and women, old and young?

High streets have been badly hit by an ongoing recession and the shift to online shopping (yes internet savvy!). The task is now to make our town centres into places that people want to visit, spend time in and yes spend money in - or risk them falling into decline.

I don't want to be squeezed to the margins of a motorway - full of polluting cars and trucks when I spend money in Palmers Green High Street - the improvements to the public realm that the mini-Holland bid offer can be enjoyed by all who visit the street - it will make our community spaces more pleasant places to be.

If you intend to use this contribution to further your anti-cycling campaign (which I note proved very unpopular with Winchmore Hill voters at the local elections)  I fear you have failed miserably with this negative, reactionary, divisive and backward-looking critical moan.

If I may comment as a mum, what I most want from my local shops is to be able to get to them without the car. I want to feel safe when I cycle to shops that are just a bit too far to walk to, and most importantly to feel that my children are safe when they cycle with me to shops or to school - preferably independently, getting a good dose of health and freedom. That's not possible on the roads we have now. I also want a high street that is not dominated by cars, where road users respect pedestrians, people on scooters, people on bikes, on buses and in private cars - in that order. I want to pop up and down Green Lanes picking up my groceries on my bike (one with a rather fetching wicker basket at the front) or going to the hairdresser or meeting a friend for a coffee, on my bike, without feeling that I am taking my life into my hands. Have you ever tried cycling across the North Circular / Green Lanes junction? I don't recommend it. But I want a Green Lanes where I and my kids can do that safely. That would be a civilised Palmers Green, one where I would spend more time and therefore more money.

The local press, the Enfield Independent has been carrying some animated correspondence continuing the debate about the Mini-Holland proposals.

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