Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Feedback on St Ann's LTN
I see some pros as well as the obvious cons but felt this feedback was telling.
Tags for Forum Posts: low traffic neighbourhoods, traffic
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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It's an awareness of that history and hard won rights which makes people instinctively oppose enforced restrictions on movement.
They all voted against leaving the EU then?
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Permalink Reply by Gordon Farcas on
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I was expecting your comment Michael.
Clearly there is a difference between the right to move freely around your own town and country and the ability to cross borders into other countries.
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Because LTNs and living near shops, schools, drs and parks etc is complete tyranny obviously and protesting against them is totally like being in the French Resistance or fighting on the beaches etc .
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That's all fine. Having services locally and ideally within walking distance is fantastic. But making it difficult for people to travel to surrounding areas is heading towards undue state control. Not all services, attractions, green space, friends and family will be in your local '15min city'. We should be free to travel unhindered/without fines, permits or quotas to other areas.
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Ok Gordon. If you click on Warham Road on the map that is linked to earlier in this thread you’ll see that an average of 2,500 vehicles travel up my road every day. From 6 in the morning and then again from around 3 in the afternoon there is a constant stream of vehicles using my narrow, wholly residential street. They do it to shave a few minutes off their journey to Finsbury Park or Hornsey.
Where is my freedom not to be woken up every morning? Where is my freedom not to have to pay for repairs to cracks to my home caused by vibration? Does freedom only exist behind the wheel of a car?
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No-one’s saying that you can or can’t go anywhere. That’s always your prerogative. What is happening is that if people choose to travel to their destination in a machine that negatively impacts the health and well-being of others and the global environment, there may be added inconvenience of time or cost to mitigate some of that negative impact. That’s it. No-one’s rights or privileges have been changed or adjusted at all.
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Yep. There are nutters at the fringes of both points of view. Protests always bring them out.
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Here are some of them outside the Haringey Council meeting in 14 February where an anti LTN petition was presented. Their placards make interesting reading
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Yes it's all about local traffic schemes with that lot.
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You see the protests at Oxford about their “15 minute cities.” Full of white nationalists.
now I’m not saying that those who oppose the LTN are supporting white nationalists. But anyone who equates a traffic calming scheme (like we have always had introduced!) to someone complaining about a Carbon lockdown or digital ID currency isn’t that many moves away from that position.
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