Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Don't Forget - Wightman Road Closed for 5 months from Next Tuesday (29th March)
In case it's escaped your notice or slipped your mind, Wightman Road will be closed to through traffic for five months starting next Tuesday 29th March.
This will be a significant dislocation to North London traffic movement. So much so that warning notices have been placed as far away as Archway. No doubt it will also have a significant impact on Harringay's traffic.
However, there really is no alternative to at least partial road closure. The railway bridge between Alroy and Wightman roads is being replaced and there will simply be no road for a few months!
One option the Council could have taken would have been to simply reroute the traffic via the Ladder rung roads. It is to their credit, however, they recognised that with over 16,000 vehicles a day using Wightman Road, this would have placed an intolerable burden on our narrow residential roads, already beset by undue traffic volumes.
After consultation with residents, the solution decided upon is to place blocks at regular intervals along Wightman Road, in effect creating clusters of two or three rung roads. Whilst this will retain unfettered access for residents. it will render the whole Ladder, including Wightman, useless as a rat run. You can clearly see the details on the full size pdf map attached below.
Quite what it will mean for traffic in Harringay, Haringey and further afield remains to be seen. Those of us who have been working with the Council on this very much hope that traffic will quickly find other routes. It's fair to say, however, that at very best, we're going to experience some very heavy congestion on Green Lanes for a month or so.
At the same time, the Harringay traffic study will continue. The coincident timing of this piece of work with the bridge closure may be fortunate in that it will give the consultants an opportunity to study the outcome of diverting traffic away from Harringay.
A pdf copy of the Wightman Road closure is attached, along with some Council-produced documentation. You can stay up to date with what's happening on the Wightman Road closure on a dedicated page on the council website here.
Tags for Forum Posts: traffic, wightman bridge, wightman bridge closure
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Ooh yes absolutely. In fact I've just got off the phone with Bombardier. Now instead of suffering the indignity of buying a preowned Learjet 75, which is all I could have afforded from HoL income pre-closure, I can now go for a brand new one, specced up to the nines - but the bad news for you Osbawn is that since you've blown my cover, no free flights for you buster.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Well, with your Panamanian investments under scrutiny you really have to widen you portfolio Hugh
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For goodness sakes Michael, you're blowing my HoL investment secrets too?!
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Permalink Reply by James Hawtin on
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So the wightman road closure is part of you master plan to turn it into run way for your personal jet Hugh? ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Penny A on
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Hi Souvarine! Of course our thanks go to all of you too, I'm newly active on the site so am picking up speed!
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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But no faster than 20mph remember
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I have just joined the site and it is good to understand what is going on at the moment on Wightman Road. I live on the road and I am loving the peace and quiet. Appreciate as a driver it is painful but it does make you realise the amount of traffic and noise the traffic brings on a daily basis.
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I bet the majority of the residents are enjoying the peace and quiet.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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I am glad to say that since the road closed, all expected deliveries on our part of Wightman Road have arrived as planned, including of course, the daily postman. Also, our black bins were emptied this week as usual. I didn't see the lorry but I suppose it drove up Allison and went down Hewitt afterwards. The only defect I have noticed is the failure to empty the recycling bins this week. We shall survive this but it does look a bit like incompetence.
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I spoke to some other traders on Green Lanes today about the effect of the WR closure on their businesses. Both were restaurants. One who works in a large successful Turkish restaurant, surprised me. He said that most of the restaurant's customers arrive on foot anyway so the business was not impacted at all. Not what I was expecting. The other said he thought that the slower traffic may even be helping. He told me that the has the sense that slow speeds gave people a chance to take in the surroundings that they may normally just pass through. On the other hand he did also say that a booking was cancelled last week due to the traffic.
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