Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
As the Wealthy Clog our Streets with Cars
Interesting article from local resident Catherine Shoard from the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/07/cars-breathe-...
Tags for Forum Posts: traffic, wightman road, wightman road closure
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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OK.. I agree, perhaps a bit exaggerated.. but you get my drift.. Perhaps ten minutes up and down time, plus waiting - getting on the first train that arrives.
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Permalink Reply by DTW on
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Unless you can get a tram to Herefordshire and my place of work I will always need a car. The second hand 14 year old Ford Focus
As an aside - who owns a nice car in inner London and why. If I could afford a great car no way I would drive it round here. A minor collision is almost certain over the years!
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Your decision to live where you live no doubt.. But you expect others to pay the price in the pollution of their communities for that. While you live, I assume, in a quiet pollution free area. There are sufficient railway connections in Hertfordshire, so I see no excuse for using a car. I don't accept your implication that you can't do anything else. But I would accept that it is more comfortable for you to add to the pollution of London's streets every day.
I'd start by charging non GL residents hefty tolls to drive in and out of the area inside the North and South Circular roads. Especially cars with only one occupant. Make it more expensive than using Public Transport.
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I work no where near a train station and or any local buses?! I literally would have a 45 minute walk after the nearest closest public transport which would take around 2.30 mins plus the walk,
I could move but I live where I live because of my family, I live on a road like others that's congested. I don't use a car when travelling inside the north circular.
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I suggested congestion charging the arse out of drivers from outside the norf circ and M25 at the begining of all this and was metaphoricly told to butt out. I also mentioned traffic calming measures for wightman - width restictions (top end of sheperd hill), contra flow schemes (wolves lane style- which i believe works, but you'd have to ask the residents of wolves lane) but no one on wightman seems interested in anything other than full closure.
I read on another thread that that modern planning recommends cul de sac development so why not close off the turnpike lane junction with new social housing full width of road and pavements. Then do the same at the end of every ladder road (either end would do) with more social housing. Then wightman and any road that chose to join them would be the 'ideal' cul de sac, we would also have much more social houing in the area -- win! win!
The only down side is the 'Wightmanese' would then have to access GL from Endyminon rd walking or by car but they'd get 'absolutly No through traffic' not even from the rung roads.
LIGHT TOUCH PAPER AND>>>>>> RUN
sorry everyone, really silly above but just couldnt resist.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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I don't know if it's rich people. I live on a council estate and though my household income is higher than most I think I may be one of the only households here not owning a car. Public transport makes so much more sense in London. I'd rather have someone else drive me.
Meanwhile vehicles park under my bedroom window (NOT a designated parking spot) spewing forth poisonous fumes...
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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It's not just rich people: that's just a Guardian snipe in a class war that doesn't exist.
If only wealthy people drove cars there would be no traffic congestion and undetectable pollution.
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