Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
We need a Traffic and Parking Review in Harringay
Harringay desperately needs a traffic and parking review, we have got to the stage that the amount of traffic coming down the ladder roads really needs to be dealt with. I will be writing to officers and the lead member because we can no longer I believe sustain this inequitable distribution of traffic in the area.
This morning on my way to work I witnessed some amazing community action and spirit from businesses on Green Lanes. An elderly man was hit by a car turning right out of Pemberton Rd. Whilst I didn't see the accident I did see the shop owners come out and one young woman from the jewellers recorded the driver who we initially thought had abandoned his car and fled the scene. The driver did come back as he had gone to get help, however the locals were not taking any chances. I looked like a leg injury and the police assured me he would be ok, however it could have been far worse.
I am receiving emails from residents angry at the level of traffic coming down their roads which is impacting on their houses and quality of lives. I would really be interested to hear more residents views on the issue.
Emine
Harringay Ward Councillor
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by e spengler on
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"best choice for them", aka. selfish.
Which, in turn inspires other people to go "sod behaving properly, I'll act like a selfish jerk too, everyone else is" and before you know it everyone loses (tragedy-of-the-commons-style).
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Permalink Reply by Richard Hulbert on
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If that were really true then civilisation would have perished long ago.
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Exactly right.
Rush hour means more traffic and it's not local traffic, it's through-traffic rat-running.
That kind of traffic belongs on A or B roads, nowhere else.
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How do you know its not local traffic - do you think that people who live locally don't use their cars to commute?
And how do you define Local?
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Obviously nothing wrong with locals commuting.
How do I know? Traffic volume is higher than #residents in local area. I've followed a few cars through the local area, many are just rat runners. Also type of traffic is mixed, a 7.5 tonne truck usually doesn't have any business on a residential street.
Local = a small area that feeds into nearby A & B roads.
Roughly, the nodes leading to A/B roads as calculated by a minimum spanning tree algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_spanning_tree
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Permalink Reply by Cllr Emina Ibrahim on
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Update:
I have now recieved an email from officers that they will be discussing my request for a holistic parking and traffic review with Cllr McNamara in the new year.
With regard to the completion of the review into the no right turn on Hewitt Rd, officers have committed to completing this report in January. The result of the review will be presented to cabinet and ward councillors outlining all relevant facts for decision on permanent arrangements.
Emine
Harringay Ward Councillor
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Thanks for pushing for the review Emine.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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That's good News, Emine!
But just one other little thing. Could you please have a word with Stuart McNamara and see if he can get Haringey's officers to commit to the basic principle of publishing the information they gather on this and other issues on Haringey's website.
Because in the Draft Corporate Plan we now have the Dear Leader announcing that the future is: "less about the council supplying services and more about us coming together to solve local challenges and to support one another". And that we are each part of a neighbourhood team with: "a role to play as a team member, however big or small".
Claire Kober won't understand - but you and Stuart do - that since the Council's "job is to give people and the communities the tools and support to succeed", one fundamental tool is clear, accurate, truthful and unspun information. Citizen participation has to go beyond clapping the Christmas Panto.
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Pam, I've already volunteered - for the essential task of naming and shaming the Tory apologists running our Council.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Sometimes, volunteering in a crisis has to be allowed, even if replacing paid jobs, they are cut anyway. eg my friend who works for A London Council as a grants officer, reckons that those services that can be kept ticking over by using volunteers alongside paid workers, should be - eg libraries, parks - if there is willing help. Then when the crisis is over the jobs can be reinstated. The alternative is wholesale disappearance of those services, forever. Look at all those bricked-up/converted libraries + community centres, from the 80s round of cuts.
There won't be money now for traffic counts and wholesale re-evaluations (even with the magic billions pouring in from Qatar), it will just get slightly worse every day. So I would willingly do my shift on a roadside traffic count. For example.
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