... 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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Couldn't reply to you Ant, but in my view, a few broken wing mirrors are a sacrifice worth making. I can't accept though that making Wightman Road one way is a good idea particularly is you make it one way going from north to south as you would then have all the Jewsons lorries travelling the full length of Wightman Road rather than arriving at the Endymion end where their depot is.
For the millionth time, I don't drive to work and never have done. I do not cause the weekday rush hour traffic, I want to use public transport which is what everyone tells me is the right thing to do.
No busses go down Wightman road though sadly so you're held up by traffic and not a road closure. According to Joe's work a fair amount of the traffic that was counted on Wightman Rd would also have been counted on Green Lanes.
Are you trying to claim that there isn't additional traffic on Green Lanes now because of the closure of Wightman Road? Or perhaps you didn't see Michael A's stats on how much longer bus journeys are taking along Green Lanes since the closure of Wightman Road.
You only need a slight increase in "traffic" to get a big increase in congestion. From memory the figures quoted around the introduction of the congestion charging zone were a 3% reduction in traffic would cause a 15% reduction in congestion. I bet the busses are a lot better now that the small amount of morning and afternoon school traffic has gone.
I'm saying that of the 160,000 vehicles a week counted on Green Lanes I think a great deal of them were also counted on Wightman Rd so they're just staying on there instead of cutting through the ladder.
Anyone coming cross borough down Hornsey Park Road and not using Green Lanes has probably been displaced much further away.
So who is it uses the huge car park behind the Civic Centre ?
And almost every school seems to have a car park...
Cars are immoral now though. Look at what Volkswagen did.
I see teachers on the tube with bags full of homework all the time, even marking stuff!
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