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.
Tags for Forum Posts: traffic, wightman bridge closure
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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Hardly
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One way roads are through roads
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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But they are not cut-through roads if they lead into other appropriate one-way roads or else hit a no-right-turn junction with a two-way road.
For example we could leave all the rungs one-way in alternate directions, but make Wightman one-way southbound, plus add a median strip/kerb on Green Lanes which would prevent south bound GL traffic making right hand turns into a rung, and eastbound rung traffic making right hand turns into GL. The median strip would also make it safer for those pedestrians who like to jay walk across GL rather than use the crossings.
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Permalink Reply by Nick on
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Apologies - your reply above was in response to my comment which I had intended to edit but deleted instead.
I asked how Eastbound traffic from a ladder rung would head Southbound, if they cannot turn right.
It would actually be left, left, left, left again (Endymion road) then right (Green Lanes).
I don't mean to criticise all your suggestions, but any solution with massive drawbacks seems unlikely to be implemented.
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True there are three lefts then either right or left onto Endymion depending on precisely which direction south you're going.
Rung residents are already accustomed to making a few left or right turns on at least one leg of their journey, I don't see this as a "massive drawback" especially in return for massive improvement to quality of life by reducing the Ladder's usefulness for ratrunners.
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Making the ladder roads no through roads might make sense by that logic, but closing a B road makes no sense. Would you support the closure of st. Ann's road?
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Closing a B road makes sense if it is carrying far more traffic than it is able to. Wightman carries more traffic than the western end of St Anns even though Wightman is a far narrower road. St Anns is much wider, with houses generally set back from the road with a bit of front garden. Wightman houses are generally right on the pavement itself and the pavement itself has pavement parking because that it the only way the road can support two-way traffic. The narrow pavements thus create serious access issues for wheelchairs and buggies and even parents trying to hold their child's hand.
If St Anns had these or similar problems then yes I would support closure or other traffic reduction measures.
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What makes sense is reducing the traffic to an appropriate level not closing it altogether.
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Technically it's not actually closed at the moment, it would just take a lot of detours if you wanted to drive a car along the full length.
Of course its not closed to pedestrians or cyclists either.
There are other solutions. Another one I just thought of, is we could cover the area with green Post-its:
It's a fitting colour for the Green Lanes area and a relaxing colour too. The main disadvantage I see is that we'd need a lot of actual Post-its to prevent through traffic.
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Look at the picture at the top of the thread....
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