Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
20 Mph Speed Limits to be Introduced Across Haringey
Following a consultation last year Haringey is to introduce a 20 mph on all residential streets and in town centres (excluding main roads).
Over 4,500 responses were received to last year's consultation and there was a clear majority in favour of a borough wide 20mph limit restricted to residential roads and roads with schools within the borough - 65% for and 35% against.
The Council have now announced their intention to introduce the new limit. Almost 50% of Haringey's roads are already part of 20mph zones. The new measure will affect all remaining residential streets that are not yet speed restricted as well as those in town centres. Main roads at this stage will remain as 30mph zones. See map on attached pdf for more details.
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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If you drive from Manor House to the North Circular at 20 MPH it is perfectly acceptable for any driver, it is a smoother journey, you are more curtious to pedestrians cyclists and other drivers, and it is less stressful for the driver, 9 minutes by train, 20 minutes by car, it promotes a better attitude to driving, pedestrians survival at 20 is also drastically increased.
Making Green Lanes 20MPH from Manor House to Turnpike Lane would greatly improve the quality of life for residents in that area, Duckets common and Finsbury Park stretches are most hostile where cars accelerate. Cars in London do an average of 20 MPH, it was the speed that Victorians designed London to travel, as it was a reasonable speed for a carriage to travel safely in a built up environment, we live in London not Milton Keynes, they tried to redesign Birmingham to suit the car, they reversed this as it
killed the city centre, even the Autobarn is now restricted by the sheer amount of cars on the motorway. Australia leads the way with speed restrictions in its town centres, but lags disgracefully behind in Rd vs Rail alternatives esp to rural areas.
Speed humps are barely passable on the ladder smoothly at 12MPH and on some up roads much less at 9MPH, so an advisable speed would be a good idea for our ladder roads to stop the scraping of cars over our speed humps, I would love to get rid of them, and have our speed restricted by satnav for smoother safer journeys for everyone.
Bring it on Green Lanes!
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Permalink Reply by Ian on
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LBC as i type, south london driverless cars road trials under way today. Those sci-fi film futures of society lock down is only a matter of time and technology. The introduction of 20mph is done knowing full well that it will not be obeyed but the solution for the 20mph problem is already known and will be justified and released over time. The sci-fi nightmare future of control is approaching on all fronts dressed up in creating an ever safer society with higher indirect tax. In the future you will have to go to a 3rd world country to enjoy some freedom and drive a car for fun.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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TfL yesterday (12 March '15) put out proposals for making eight sections of their network of 'Red Routes' subject to a 20mph limit. The Evening Standard has mapped them.
According to TfL "Although large sections of the TfL Road Network are main arterial roads, some sections pass through busy town centres, which are more attuned to lower speed limits as they have high pedestrian and cyclist numbers". It has "identified around 50km of its network which could potentially be appropriate for 20mph speed limits".
In Haringey the Red Routes are the A10 (Tottenham High Road/Monument Way/Bruce Grove), and the section of Seven Sisters Road between Manor House and Seven Sisters. Which parts of those could count as "busy town centres" "appropriate for 20mph", I wonder?
Mind you, like Green Lanes in Harringay, the High Road in the middle of Tottenham doesn't often see 20mph never mind 30.
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