Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Mayor's plans revive spectre of Wood Green traffic being diverted down Wightman Road
Those of you who've been around on the site for a while will remember when eagle-eyed Paul Jenkins spotted some grit in the ointment of the Wood Green Town Plan. He spotted that the Council were planning to close Wood Green High Road to all traffic but buses. This would have seen all traffic diverted down Wightman.
A successful campaign orchestrated by this site saw that off..............or so we thought.
A recent article in the Hornsey & Crouch End Journal that I just spotted on the HoL Newswire raises the possibility of the plan being back in play.
So, here we are again. How come? If it was dropped by the Council, has it really been revived without any input from them? What's going on here?
According to the Journal, the plans are at a very early stage, with a public consultation running until January. It will be finalised in April 2012. So, if we want to have some influence over how this'll impact our area (positively or negatively), we'd better have our say!
Can anyone see the relevant bit in the plan?
PS: This later discussion also has some comments about this issue, but has since been closed by site Admin.
A successful campaign orchestrated by this site saw that off..............or so we thought.
A recent article in the Hornsey & Crouch End Journal that I just spotted on the HoL Newswire raises the possibility of the plan being back in play.
Fume clogged streets could be a thing of the past if cars are permanently banned in Wood Green under ambitious plans to create a "town centre of the future". The area is one of 12 earmarked by Transport for London to potentially benefit from a new network of bus and bike routes - by banning cars.
So, here we are again. How come? If it was dropped by the Council, has it really been revived without any input from them? What's going on here?
According to the Journal, the plans are at a very early stage, with a public consultation running until January. It will be finalised in April 2012. So, if we want to have some influence over how this'll impact our area (positively or negatively), we'd better have our say!
Can anyone see the relevant bit in the plan?
PS: This later discussion also has some comments about this issue, but has since been closed by site Admin.
Tags for Forum Posts: Wightman Road, mayor, shaping london, tfl, traffic, wood green spd
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I had another quick scan through the plan and still couldn't see anything. Re-reading the article, I've added more emphasis in my mind to two things the TfL Strategy Manager said:
TfL’s transport strategy manager Mike Keegan mooted the idea...... ....This could apply to Wood Green if the local authority wanted to take this up.
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So perhaps less of a concern than irt may have seemed. Suggestive also of our focusing any questions and representations on Haringey.
Whilst scaning for the Wood Green stuff, I also notice another part of the plan which I know will be of interest to residents in the southern part of Harringay ward. Apparently ther are plans to upgrade the Barking ospel Oak line to take more freght traffic.
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Permalink Reply by Nemone Mercer on
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I live on Seymour road near to Wightman road. I have 2 small children and really hate walking along Wightman road with them as it is because it's so busy, the cars dive so fast and it's so difficult to get across. Can we get another petition going against the proposal again?
N. Mercer
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Permalink Reply by Milo on
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Any form of traffic management or traffic calming inevitably displaces traffic and local problems from someones doorstep to somebody elses.
The council is basing its proposals to close Wood Green High Road upon "helping to reduce reliance upon and the use of motor vehicles" to help reduce emissions and comply with government objectives to reduce overall carbon emissions. This they will say is because they want to somehow reduce "climate change". To stop these proposals you need to challenge the false science upon which these aims are based.
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Yes that seems sensible. My son is a climate change bod so I can get him on the case
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Permalink Reply by Malcolm on
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I hope that's the most ironic sentence I've read here in a long time. Well done.
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Permalink Reply by phippsofacto on
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You can bet that there will be an increase in HGV traffic that already should not be using Wightman and ladder roads.
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