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 matthew cuthbert on
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It's not only Wightman Rd that is affected, homes at the top of each road pay the same price with their health and more so at the Green Lanes end.
We are all sensitive to Wightman Rd's situation, I wouldn't reduce the DNA of thought, as change will be reliant on the support and cooperation of other roads on the Ladder.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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As far as I can make out, reading the threads over the years, most would like to go back to the situation in 1903, when peace was disturbed only by the odd horse-drawn milk float and children played with hoops in the middle of the road
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c3t5nmgRVMs
Our milk float is electric...no clip clop
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If Wightman was to be as other Ladder roads, it could be a reduction down to 14,000 cars per week, if it was one way.
The one way road system on the Ladder generates car journeys, Alison on to Hewitt and so on, the one way system turns some residential roads into conduits for East/ West traffic flow.
Did we have less traffic when Ladder a Roads were two way, Crouch End cope, it is possible to take some parking spaces out create slip ways to allow this.
The one way system was hoisted on to the Ladder, increasing flow and here we are now.
The no right hand turn at Manor House pushes traffic traveling north, down Green Lanes and St Ann's Rd.
How many journeys are commercial vehicles on Wightman, do we know the purpose of any of the 120,000 vehicles each week, is this data available? we only have basic figures.
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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An acceptable traffic level for me would need to meet at least the following:
- Meet EU pollution levels
- Increases safety such that it encourages more cycle journeys
- Allows for the pavements to be returned to pedestrians, and generally reduce noise, fumes, and road safety issues so that it encourages more walking journeys, and people to spend more time at the front of their houses rather than locked inside or at the back, which promotes a sense of community.
These are all measurable effects of the current layout (although there is still pavement parking), but other layouts could probably achieve the same.
I'm sure these are all Council, and GLA objectives too.
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Mwah!
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Antoinette, JulieB, Natasha H, Jessica you're already off to a flying start with the crowdfunding - why wait until September when you could start now, for example just pick any frequently congested stretch of A-road (say, Tottenham High Road, Great Cambridge Road or even the North Circular itself), and start a campaign to remove the cul-de-sacs and one-way systems on the adjacent residential sidestreets which are surely the cause of the congestion?
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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There's no need to start anything....because Wightman Road will reopen on 1st September
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I think once again you are failing to grasp the difference between a residential side street and a B road.
I understand where Whightman Road residents are coming from: I have lived on a main road and it was a pain. It was noisy, polluted, and difficult to get deliveries. The difference is that when I had enough of it I moved to a quieter street. I didn't ask for the main road to be closed to through traffic, because that would have been a ridiculous suggestion.
If Whightman road residents had a more global outlook on the traffic situation, rather than nimbyism, I would have a lot more sympathy. Displacing the problem elsewhere will be detrimental to far more people than the few whightman road residents who would benefit.
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Personally I think filtering Wightman is a model solution that could be applied all over London. Think globally, act locally, as they say.
The problem has only been displaced because when the filtering was introduced for the bridgeworks there were no compensating measures introduced elsewhere. They weren't even able to change the traffic light phases properly.
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Permalink Reply by Anna Maria Dipino on
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I totally agree with your statement.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Julie; re Traffic Orders, here's the latest guidance; https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_dat...
From that; 3.4 Temporary traffic orders may last for up to 6 months on footpaths etc., and for 18 months on other roads. Temporary orders may be extended in certain circumstances.
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