Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Don't Blame the Council, it's China's Fault
You may have noticed a certain lack of progress with finishing the works on Green Lanes. Well, this time round we can't look to blame thee Council or TfL. Apparently, we're waiting for a shipment of granite to arrive from China and it's being repeatedly delayed.
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Permalink Reply by HarringayBirder on
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I agree totally. I am not sure if I responded to the consultation with these points but I am pretty sure I did. I believe a petition might be needed - presumably you would sign it?!
If so please send me a message and we will see what we can get started!
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Permalink Reply by maggie on
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£8, you are having a laugh. I've got some old metal pipes and a welding kit, I can do them for a fiver.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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And having a bit more of a look... there are probably about a hundred of them.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Is granite only to be found in China these days? Couldn't it be locally sourced? I thought there were going to be lots of lovely trees and plants there. The greening of Green Lanes never really happened, did it?
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As its local election vote Day, one soloution to this farce might be to vote this Council out? Or does it not work like that?
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It would be worth a try! Give some other people a chance to spend money and see if they make a better job of it.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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There seems to have been a delivery of granite outside the Coliseum building - or have I just not noticed that pile there before?
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Rob tweeted a photo of it yesterday. I wonder how long it will last before cracking if the lorries delivering to the Salisbury continue to park on it.
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I hate that it takes bollards to stop people basically DRIVING on the footpath. Remember back in NZ you can be done for Dangerous Driving (a serious crime) if you park on the other side of the road because the police are allowed to infer that you drove there... on the wrong side of the road, which is dangerous.
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You guys dumb or something? You've spent the past month moaning about China's cheapo granite. Now just why do you think the Koberistas ordered Tiananmen-standard tank-bearing granite for delivery to their plazas, squares and piazzas just after their famous victory. Just take a look at the photos from Tiananmen 25 years ago today: lots of bodies and bicycles nicely mangled - but China's granite withstood it all.
Meanwhile, rather than pointless bollards on our Wightman pavements, can I have some decorative Chinese chicanes of razor wire to keep the damned cyclists off my pedestrian patch?
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Actually OAE, hate to tell you but some of that Beijing granite didn't survive the tanks and the burning barricades of buses. I went around the city in the immediate aftermath, there was a lot of damage to pavements and roads.
Call me touchy if you like, and having no sense of humour, but you writing here about 'bodies and bicycles being nicely mangled' upsets me. Seeing bloodied and beaten and mangled young people on June 3rd/4th firsthand is something I wont ever forget.
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