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 pauldaly on
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There is enough room for a skinny car to get through, council needs to make these closures immovable and think about putting them in full time
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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You can nudge them with your car or give it a good heave using the camber of the road.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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They're said to be the wrong size - 1 metre width not the expected 2 metres - and are supposed to be swapped, according to a much earlier post, but two weeks later it hasn't yet happened.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I've just seen a group of mothers (?) with children acting as human bollards to stop a driver going over the pavement to bypass the roadblock at the top of Hampden. The driver did not take it well
Well done ladies, you're very brave. Respect.
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Go yummy mummies!
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Hell's teeth!
Where does he think he is going to get?
Is this to avoid the Turnpike Lane/GL junction?
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Interesting assumption.
The driver was actually a woman with a limited but expressive vocabulary
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Assumption about where she was going or gender? If the latter, I thought I read your original post as to indicate a male driver, my error.
I liked the 'expressive vocabulary'. I have heard it referred to as 'industrial' when in the North...
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Permalink Reply by Thandi on
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I was there yesterday afternoon, trying to stop this crazy woman from mounting the pavement to get through the bollards and onto Wightman road. She was rude and very aggressive. She couldn't understand that was she was trying to do was not only illegal but very dangerous. Anyone coming around the corner would not expect a car driving on the pavement.
We spoke to the marshals at the entrance to Wightman road and were told this is not an isolated incident and there were going to add additional barriers to stop this happening. Hopefully this will happen soon!
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I'm at a loss to understand what people doing this are hoping to achieve Thandi as they only get as far as the next barrier.
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This woman could have turned right and gone to Hornsey Park Road or Turnpike Lane or even into the estate opposite.
Well done Thandi. I came down to support you but it was all over by the time I got there.
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Well done Thandi. I'm going to bring this up at the Network Rail consultation meeting on Wednesday 20th. It would be good if you could make it to relate the story first hand but they definitely need to act on this before someone gets hurt.
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