New Bicycle racks on Green Lanes

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Permalink Reply by JJ B on December 21, 2014 at 8:34

Something is desperately wrong with Haringey council that they just continuously disregard what people tell them and repeatedly make the same mistakes spending our SCARCE resources to produce poorly thought through solutions when existing ones are available.
WHY!!!!
I know people are going to say whinge again...but they need to know that they are performing poorly despite the spin.

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on December 21, 2014 at 12:50

Why work any harder at a job than you need to if you never get sacked ? A better political solution would be to vote in teams of accountable experts to local government and minimise the scope of local govenreance from political parties. If you don't like building control team, vote them out, if you don't like the rubibish collection contract, vote them out. Local political parties should be stripped of patronage and that patronage democratised. Especially in haringey.

The political parties should simply nominate which teams of local experts they support but leave that ultimate decision up to us as and when contracts are renewed. Those votes should be made online with a council tax discount to people that vote regularly.

People, get bored of politics and distrustful of politicians became the current system mean people in suits try to all talk the same way to attract the same middle ground but then act differently. If people actually engaged in the issues and actually felt genuinely responsible for the things that matter people would feel less bored and apathetic and be less distrustful because there would be less things the politicians would have to lie about.

Also in Haringey it might mean quite a lot of Important things were done better because every team had to do more than keep a cosy relationship with the council for their milk and honey.

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Permalink Reply by tigha on December 21, 2014 at 18:17

omg- so much controversy over bike stands- didnt know there were so many cycling enthusiasts in haringey- do come to the haringey lcc social in the new year

personally i like them, they are big enough to be solid, no more hard edges to scratch my bike and not nearly as ugly and solid as many bike stands are- never seen anyone able to break through a bike stand- its always stronger than any lock

But my only criticism is that its a shame they couldnt be more spread out with say i or 2 at bottom of every road rather than clusters every few roads- now so many railings have been taken down, unfortunately have to use bike stands to get my d lock through but dont see the point of walking 2-3 streets to find one- misses the point of cycling in the first place

otherwise good job, thanks Adam and all those otherwise involved

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Permalink Reply by aidan on December 21, 2014 at 21:09

Apologies if I've missed something earlier, but this all seems so bizarre. There are literally dozens of manufacturers who will sell you, off-the-shelf, a stainless steel Sheffield stand with a tap plate.

e.g. http://www.marshalls.co.uk/commercial/street-furniture/products/oll...

There are a couple of these in Wood Green High Road, opposite Sainsbury's. (With yellow hi-vis bands on the sides, too, though these could do with replacing.)

Doesn't this solve the aesthetic 'problem' and the quality problem?

I've just walked past the replacement stands, and they're so obviously set at the wrong angle, as were the originals, that they're bound to be replaced before long. Can we just get this right to begin with?

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on December 22, 2014 at 6:39

Aidan thanks for the link. Can't see much wrong with those simple, straightforward designs. Although it doesn't seem necessary in Marshalls' photo, I note the stands are mounted in diagonal plan. When stands are erected along pavements, this ought to be norm. Sometimes this simple, basic factor is got right. Note the placing of the row of stands near Lidl's Finsbury Park (Seven Sisters Road, opposite Blackstock Road).

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