Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Anyone else seeing evening snarled-up traffic jams?
We live in Tottenham Hale. Not far from the forest of ugly, out-of-scale massively overpriced towers still rising despite Covid-10 and despite the falling appeal of buses and trains. As cars offer some covid protection they cram the roads to the point where car journeys in the evening rush hour may not seem worth attempting.
I wasn't surprised when someone rang the doorbell and asked to buy a visitor's permit. (Which I gave them.)
They'd taken half an hour not to get very far. As we know, the few exit roads were jammed so they'd decided to park. Quite understandably didn't want a ticket.
Is this happening elsewhere?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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So you ARE the traffic you despise.
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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Yes...and with that congestion our loveley (not) local football club has applied for planning permission for a temporary car park in Northumberland park arrea for 400 plus cars!
Go figure.
More congestion!
More pollution!
Invasion of our neighbourhoods by fast food cosuming hoards who piss and s... in every possibel place.
And caus ethe entire area to close down excluding local life....
Enough is enough!
LOOK AT THE FOOTBALL >>>>ON TV! YOU DO NOT NEED TO DRIVE TO THE STADIUM - JUST STAY HOME!
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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According to London News
There was a March from Tottenham to Hornsey
Following earlier Police Actions
I really wonder how much traffic Local roads can cope with ?
Especially following Council Actions of unused Cycle Ways
And Pavement widening , on already congested roads w
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Unused cycleways, already congested roads, pavement widening... do we not see the problem here?
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Well, John, I can see some interlocking problems. And maybe guess or glimpse several more.
But I'd very much like to know how you see these problems. With possible short term and even medium term solutions you might be turning over in your mind.
So how about you making one of the sort of maximum five minute videos which Liz Ixer and Hugh Flouch made once-upon-another-time - was it two Council elections ago? It was before we stepped through the Covid mirror; or perhaps fell down the lockdown rabbit hole.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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Please tell me where these cycleways are so I can use them. Except for CS1. I got put off using that when I realised I was expected to share the road with oncoming vehicles. Someone threw a cigarette butt from one of them and it hit my helmet.
But I don't know of any other cycleways locally, so par educate me. Also pavement widening. That sounds great! I live just off West Green Road, the pavements were temporarily widened but not any more. There's not enough space to social distance along parts of it now. Where can I find wider pavements?
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CS1 in Tottenham is a joke...
- it "consumes" most of the very busy pavement in front of the future Wards Corner buidling site and that crosses both entrances to a very busy tube station - the height of stupid planning and tick boxitude.
- They reduced the size of the pavement and give some to bikes while widening a four lane road with 2 bus lanes to a 5/6 lane with only 1 bus lane - Wow yes! Totally cynical planning. People don't give a damn about the the CS1 markings = bikes ride on the pavement, walkers and pram pushers use the cycle way because it is the natural desire line.
CS 1 between Seven SIsters and Tottenham Green is a totally scandalous waste of resources - OUR RESOURCES!
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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It would help if it had been painted green or blue like other cycleways. Dunno why that wasn't part of the build. But will the people standing around by the bus stop and shops ever move? I presume all cyclists go onto the road at the junction as they soon find it's impossible to use. Another great idea on paper ... (a bit like demolishing an existing building with 2500 sq m of retail space, to make way for more LuxuryFlats).
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Way back before I ever thought I'd ride a bike I used to approach people there and say "do you realise you are standing on the cycle superhighway?"
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In case anyone reading this thread doesn't know the location, here's a link to my photo in 2018. I tried to find a viewpoint which showed why it was such a poor design. Please imagine if you don't have the experience there - of navigating this strip of pavement with kids or pushing a buggy.
I also added a quote from one of several videos on Youtube by Dr Mayer Hillman.
"... there has been a marked reduction in children’s overall activity outside the home free of overt adult supervision. This freedom has tended to be withdrawn largely on account of parental fears of road crashes and ‘stranger danger’. Road accidents are an inadequate measure of road safety: a primary reason for the marked decline in child casualties on the road is not the fact that roads have become safer but that children’s independent travel has been dramatically curtailed."
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cycling injury risk in london impacts of road characteristics and i...
Read this - elevant to our stupid cycle lanes like CS1 in 7 Sisters!
"advisory lanes increased injury odds by 34%. Junctions were found to increase injury odds threefold; higher pedestrian density also increased injury odds."
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