Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Ladder Traffic Survey (Formerly "Counting Sheep............")
...........well, not sheep really, cars.
The Wood Green Car Free Day is coming up - Sunday 28th Sept, 7AM to 8PM. It's the closest we'll get to emulating traffic pattterns in Harringay in the event that WG High Street is made bus only.
It would seem to me to be an ideal opportunity for us to guage the effects on traffic in Harringay. To do that we'd need to select a few roads and measure traffic levels on the day that WG High Street is closed plus the same day on the week before or after.
We'd need agreement on the roads we should monitor, a group of volunteers (each of us could give a few hours each) and, ideally, some clicker counters.
Can anyone help wth any of that?
The Wood Green Car Free Day is coming up - Sunday 28th Sept, 7AM to 8PM. It's the closest we'll get to emulating traffic pattterns in Harringay in the event that WG High Street is made bus only.
It would seem to me to be an ideal opportunity for us to guage the effects on traffic in Harringay. To do that we'd need to select a few roads and measure traffic levels on the day that WG High Street is closed plus the same day on the week before or after.
We'd need agreement on the roads we should monitor, a group of volunteers (each of us could give a few hours each) and, ideally, some clicker counters.
Can anyone help wth any of that?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Thanks David. I agree Warham should be one of the roads monitored - it's included in my working list above.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Some relevant information from the Council
Diversions:
Road closures will be in place from 7am to 8pm between the High Road's junctions with Turnpike Lane and Gladstone Avenue.
The Gladstone Avenue junction will remain open to local traffic to allow access to residential streets to the east of Wood Green High Road and for the Shopping City car parks.
Advance road closure warning signs are erected and further traffic diversion signs will be erected on the day of the road closure.
Southbound buses which normally terminate at Turnpike Lane will terminate at Wood Green station or will be diverted via Lordship Lane and Westbury Avenue.
Northbound buses that normally terminate at Wood Green Station will terminate at Turnpike Lane Station or will be diverted via Westbury Avenue and Lordship Lane.
So it's all traffic banned on Sunday 28th, not just cars
At least they don't plan to run buses along Wightman Rd :-)
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Permalink Reply by Harringay SNT on
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The logical route for traffic to divert is as has been mooted in the past. Down Station Road into Hornsey Park Road and then Wightman Road using `Ladder` roads that are one way towards Green Lanes or continue down Wightman.
Warham Road gets traffic from St Anns up Salisbury Road and is highly unlikely to be used by traffic travelling South trying to byepass Woodgreen High Road. You would have to go left into Lordship Lane towards Downhills Park Road then Belmont Road into West Green and then rat run to St Anns. I dont think this is likely.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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That's interesting, so Falkland Rd could benefit from these High St changes as you're putting it BUT, in reverse those travelling north will need to either sit in traffic trying to go left into Turnpike Lane and then do an illegal right into Hornsey Park Rd or, shoot up the ladder roads onto Wightman. Oh the joy.
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A couple of points on this - if you're measuring your own road, you can do it form your front gate - or if you can see traffic from your house - from your liviving room.
John D pointed out to me that 15 mins in an hour will will statistically sufficient.
We just need to agree in which hours we'll monitor- but this is not going to be a tough piece of citizen action here folks.
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Permalink Reply by Caroline on
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I can help with Hewitt. Anytime on the 28th or this Sunday. I'm also usually up before 7 if anybody is needed for the earlier slots ....
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I did my control monitoring of North end Wightman Road today as I can't do it on the 5th.
15 mins in the hour seems to be a good compromise as any longer and I was losing concentration. I counted northgoing and southgoing together as we are interested in the total traffic, not where it's coming from / going to.
I used a kitchen timer for the 15 mins as it has an audible warning you can't miss.
Traffic varied from 50/15mins at 0700 to 351/15 mins at 1300 and 349/15 mins at 1700. Traffic at 1900 was still up at 257/15 mins.
It will be very interesting to see the figures for next Sunday :-)
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