Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Remove Parking From the Green Lanes
📣🌳🚌 *Make the Green Lanes cleaner, safer and more welcoming* 🌳🚌📣
The Green Lanes could be so much better - easier to walk, quicker by bus, safer to cross, and a more inviting place to spend time. *Removing parking on both sides from Harringay Green Lanes Station to Turnpike Lane would open the street up* creating clearer views, smoother journeys, and a greener, more attractive high street.
Following on from the public meeting last week, we want to show the Council that we care.
📋Please add your name to this petition for a brighter, safer and more vibrant Green Lanes.
https://www.change.org/p/make-green-lanes-safe-clean-and-welcoming-...
There's a petition that's just been started about the traffic on green lanes. https://www.change.org/p/make-green-lanes-safe-clean-and-welcoming-...
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Permalink Reply by neil
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lol. Yes traffic, Green Lanes ...
The London Cycling Campaign, Haringey branch will probably be a good rallying point to protest and counter the council's cosy relationship up with the traders on Green Lanes. ÂTo much talking, I'm all for peacefully protesting. A cycle march down Green Lanes. Every weekend until the council take notice ? Â
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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Transport policy is not rocket science but in Haringey (with the current crew) it's difficult if not politically impossible to effect progress.
The factors involved are politics and psychology.
The addiction to cars and car-use in urban areas is comparable to the addiction to nicotine or stronger substances. We see this in some of the hatred and hysterical reactions to any attempt to curtail car-use.
I witnessed a howling mob of anti-LTN persons trying to storm a Full Council meeting. They had been whipped up by the Tottenham Conservatives.
I've owned and used cars and motorcycles for most of my life and they will always have a place in rural areas. But the case of unlimited use in built-up areas, nay, Victorian infrastructure steadily reduces. There are simply too many cars.
It took many years of government action to drive down the incidence of smoking and the same is proving true of the powerful addiction to cars.
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I remember lots of vicious abuse of mr Burke on twitter along the lines of the note. The level of literacy in the note is typical for the types who regard any minor form of traffic planning to enable pedestrian or cyclist safety as an affront.Â
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Elizabeth: yes indeed.
Among those who dislike low traffic neighbourhoods, there is a minority whose ugly characteristic is personal abuse and personalised attack.
This is consonant with the threats of violence and criminal damage. It is tough for those individuals who are the subject of such attacks, including death threats.
However, this conduct is all that some of them have to offer and it reflects the lack of reasoned argument by some who oppose more liveable neighbourhoods. I'm reluctant to quote Margaret Thatcher approvingly, but this seems relevant:Â
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Jon Burke (website) doubtless has the scars but he is unbowed. He and many others understand that our environment needs more attention.
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i seem to remember him saying he'd had so much flak enough was enough. Who can blame him?
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Permalink Reply by Pacific_Flower on
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Hi Declan, thanks for your pro action.
I think this option definitely deserves consideration and support.
If we can't reduce traffic on GL we should be at least be making it a better experience for bus users and cyclists.Â
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Bus at a standstill on a rainy Saturday. Parked cars!Â
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Permalink Reply by Mavic Starfish on
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Signed, thanks Declan, free the Green Lanes
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http://https://haringey.gov.uk/news/20251118/buses-get-ps10m-boost-... Signed. Would be good to see some of the newly-awarded £10 million to Haringey for bus improvements spent on removing parking from Green Lanes - fed up with how slow and unreliable the buses are!Â
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