Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Oxford Street to be pedestrianised by 2020 ... so Wightman Rd ...
... can surely be closed to through traffic in the future, as it currently is during the bridge works. If the planners can deal with the re-routing of all those buses and taxi journeys away from Oxford Street for the pedestrianisation plans, it must be possible to do this for Wightman Road as well.
Living Wightman would do well to have a chat with the new Mayor's office.
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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Thanks for the Barcelona link Alan, that's an inspiring project.
"Private vehicles account for just 20% of total movements in the city [Barcelona] today and yet they occupy 60% of roads."
I wonder what the Haringey percentages are?
"'We need to win the street back,' says Janet Sanz, city councillor for ecology, urbanism and mobility"
What are our local councillors saying about traffic vs living spaces? I found a copy of the council's Transport Strategy for 2011-2014 on the council website - what is the current strategy?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Will you pay my stamp duty please?
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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I know someone taking part in the door to door survey for Living Wightman at the moment. He says about 75% of those he talks to support the following aims;
An extension of current arrangements on Wightman, until the report is ready, in the first instance
· A low traffic Wightman Road long term, which will in turn massively reduce traffic on the ladder roads, creating a safer, healthier and happier future for Wightman Road and the Harringay Ladder
· Solutions put in place to help address any adverse consequences in particular to get buses moving along Green Lanes and Turnpike Lane, but also to help traffic flow more easily at the times when there is congestion.
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte A on
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Whose doors are they knocking on? Are they going all the way up and down Green Lanes asking everyone in the flats above the shops their opinions? And Endymion Road and Turnpike Lane? West Green Road and St Ann's? Hornsey High Street/Priory Road? Seven Sisters Road?
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I'm sure they'd appreciate volunteers...
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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All well and good. But where are the solutions to address the adverse consequences ?
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The current closure of Wightman Road cannot be extended....I do wish people would stop talking about that as an actual possibility
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Charlotte, good question. Don't know as not running the survey but as John says, they need volunteers.
John, folk have been putting forward their thoughts for solutions on here re traffic build up elsewhere. I would have thought the traffic consultants will put forward options once they have all their data in etc. Lets not think we can solve things by ourselves.
Antoinette, I didn't phrase the survey questions. I do think the next councillor voted in will have expressed a strong interest in traffic reduction on 'the ladder' though. Lets see what happens. Lots of interest in reducing traffic. That much is clear.
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Whoever did write the survey is not doing any favours by misleading people that this is a possibility when it isn't....
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Not really. The campaigners will be looking to get the council to change their current plans for a reopen in September and extend the closure until the traffic consultation report is complete. The odds of them achieving that maybe slim but they are allowed to try and you're entitled to disagree.
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But the Council aren't allowed by law to extend a Traffic Management Order, they would need a new TMO and that takes time.... time which doesn't exist... it's not just about whether the Council can be convinced to keep Wightman Road closed, they can't legally do so
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"cannot be extended" - I never imagined it would ever happen in the first place.
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