Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Removal of railings along Harringay Passage (at junctions with the roads)
Apart from Adam Coffman was anyone else aware this work - removal of railings along Harringay Passage (at junctions with the roads) - was happening?
I know it was discussed at the first meeting of the Harringay Passage Group (yet to be constituted) in January, but wasn't aware a decision had been made between the council & a few residents that this work was to go ahead.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Apart from Adam Coffman was anyone else aware . . . . . .?
After poring through 10 pages of this stuff, I can only imagine what a 10-Act Hamlet might be like without the Prince.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Tom Stoppard imagined almost this, OAE. (The whole film is on YouTube.)
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Permalink Reply by Mark Pack on
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And very good it is too.
I suspect the line that goes roughly, 'Rhetoric? Is that all you've got to offer at time like this?' may appeal particularly to some here!
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Seriously? Is this for real?
Is this what our council tax gets spent on? Removing railings, re-inserting railings, consultations on railings. FFS.
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[Ahem. Discreet cough] I know I'm an interloper from the Far East. But, perhaps I can be permitted a few words?
I am green with envy because so many Harringay residents care so passionately about their neighbourhood; their children's safety; road safety in general; dumping; the look of the streets and so on. With people taking the trouble to look up the Department for Transport Research and Guidance. And sharing their views and observations with one another online.
Ten pages; 2200 views and rapidly rising.
So I don't understand why that energy and interest and neighbourliness can't almost all be poured into an offline gathering - maybe a citizens group; maybe the Harringay Passage Working Group being set up - focused on sorting out and clarifying who did what; what's the best way forward; and how to insist it happens.
And crucially, doing this in a way which enables as many people as possible to build a united judgement. (Without taking time and energy on learned discussions about how New Zealanders spell bogan or any other words in their rich and elegant new language.)
By the way, I'm not undervaluing the efforts of David Schmitz. But in my own ward, as a councillor I've benefited enormously from working with and learning from small groups of local activists who are prepared to share the work. You have a far bigger and potentially more powerful group of people.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Phil, if Harringay residents came together, built and self-managed that strong network, the 59th rate politicians running the Council wouldn't dare even to dream about strangling it.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Don't worry Alan, we have in Harringay enough networks and resident groups of various types to sink a ship. Most of them filled with the same people! A new one is being born on Tuesday re Harringay Passage for example.
So very active indeed. And many of us know each other off-line, often with beer in hand down at one of local pubs. I'm sure you could learn a thing or two from us over here.
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Right, right. Now I get it.
All this apparently vituperative division over ten pages is actually a revival of the ancient Scots/New Zealand friendly, poetic jousting tradition known as Flyting.
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I think we should advertise Alan's 'snippets of wisdom from the east' on the side of Liz's flower boxes. It'll bring in tourists, we could build hotels (god knows we need a decent one) and diversify the restaurant landscape. Actually, I forgot, this is already on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Following an online discussion some weeks ago - www.harringayonline.com/events/friends-of-harringay-passage-inaugur... - but glad to see it's not official Haringey Labour policy to dissuade locals from convening to act together as our one Labour councillor did when there was first talk of this group.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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Before the railings were put in (back in the 50s/60s) accidents were frequent as kids, bikers, skaters et al flew out of the passage without looking. It will be even worse now. Are they mad?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I have had my boy fly out of the passage on his bike without stopping (yes of course I told him not to!) and it freaked me out. Don't get me wrong, I agree with people who say that there needs to be "something" there, I just hate rails and consider what was there and is back now, overkill. A planter would be much nicer. Actually, something to make the cars slow down instead of the kids would be even better.
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