Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Air quality alert for Harringay schools
The Clean Air in London campaign has obtained through a Freedom of Information request to Transport for London a list of more than a thousand schools which are within close distance of a road which carries more than 10,000 vehicles a day. The level of pollution that children are breathing in can cause a very strong increase in levels of asthma.
As you might guess, surprise surprise, several local schools are on this list - South Harringay and West Green Primaries (surprisingly North Harringay is not listed), as well as at least one school near Wood Green. Have a look.
This is what the campaign says we could be doing to act.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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This is odd because South Harringay is actually two schools, infants and juniors. Also, the infants is on the Green Lanes side of the passage and the juniors is on the Wightman Rd sign. In the map you have given the one school is placed much closer to Green Lanes.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Not really. They've identified the Infants School only (and as usual the wrong spelling of its name *sigh*). The playground is actually pretty much where the red dot is and must be approx 150 metres from Green Lanes, unlike those of SH Junior school and NH Primary. It is quite a short distance from the eastern end of the playground to the main road.
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Permalink Reply by Karin on
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I wonder as well if the South Harringay end of Green Lanes has slower traffic and this is part of the problem?
I read once (can't remember where) that if traffic is slow or stationary then more diesel particles end up in the air (am probably mangling the science here)...
To me the bus always seems to crawl along until around the salisbury where it speeds up.
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