Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Campaign against Wightman Road closure
Spotted in a local shop window..
Tags for Forum Posts: harringay traffic study, traffic
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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on
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I admire your (lack of) faith in the council. Personally I'd be amazed if they did something as innovative as this. Based on their historic record there's a far better chance of them doing very little.
On the poster, the bit about increasing traffic is factually incorrect.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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In 2006 they closed The Gardens to to get votes in a Labour selection meeting and the whole area has been in chaos since. Why is this being thought as a poss reality? Makes no sense & as usual with Haringey council, no matter how many signatures are amassed or how many people oppose this idea, they will go ahead with it as usual.
Madness!
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Permalink Reply by Nick on
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The gardens closure is incomparable to the 'filtering' of Wightman, as it only affects a small section of green lanes.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Not really Nick. All of the traffic that once went through the Gardens and then on to GL now only goes along Salisbury Road and either on to GL or straight up Warham. The misery is now all squeezed on to the Salisbury/Warham axis rather than spread across a dozen Garden streets.
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There is no way for traffic coming up Green Lanes to turn East without doing that nasty rat-run thing by turning right onto Woodberry Grove OR going all the way down to St Ann's Rd, north of which Green Lanes seems to cope with its traffic load. The closure of the gardens also pushed east bound traffic trying to get over the railway up to the top of the ladder via Colina Rd or West Green Rd and probably Westbury Ave.
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Hermitage Road is the first Eastbound road, not the Gardens. It also leads directly onto St Anns Road. Also if it were possible to turn right at Manor House onto Seven Sisters Road (Eastbound) this wouldn't be a problem.
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Ha ha ha ha ha... Hermitage was blocked off before the gardens even were. When did you last drive down there?
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That's my point - the Gardens closure was prompted by the increased traffic caused by the Hermitage closure. Hermitage was the more 'natural' route East.
Closing roads just shifts traffic elsewhere - there isn't enough 'evaporation'.
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Wightman is the LAST great rat run, as many maps and screenshots of maps on here have shown. All the non-evaporation is on the ladder.
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I agree with you on Salisbury Road - it carries twice the traffic of the busiest Ladder rung, but it's seldom mentioned on here - perhaps because it lies East of Green Lanes?
This situation could have been avoided by routing the traffic toward the St Anns / Green Lanes junction.
There's also a proposal to reverse the direction of Warham Road.
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Permalink Reply by PaulG on
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They also could, and in my view should, have opened up the junction by the pub to allow traffic to exit St Ann's Road and turn left or right into Green Lanes instead of having that silly piazza thingy...
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