Green Lanes Area Transport Study - consultation

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Permalink Reply by Rich on April 6, 2017 at 16:29

As far as I understand you can have Loading Bays on red routes available during certain times.

Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on March 30, 2017 at 16:02

Was that the case? I seem to remember that the two pollution studies (before and during the works) didn't show a huge difference on Green Lanes but I'm not 100% I'm remembering that correctly (I could be thinking of the bus times).

I tried to find the link to the study on here but unfortunately the search isn't particularly enlightening.

Ultimately though, maintaining or increasing capacity isn't going to decrease pollution.

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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on March 30, 2017 at 18:24

I think what you are recalling is that there wasn't much of a fall in pollution levels in Wightman and the ladder roads which is the other side of the same coin.

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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on March 30, 2017 at 20:57

Thanks, that's what I was thinking of.

Looking at that graph, that wouldn't be my takeaway from it. The Ladder and Wightman appear to be dropping by 33%-50% but Green Lanes and Turnpike Lane also drop by 25% or so.

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Permalink Reply by JoeW on April 1, 2017 at 23:00

NO2 pollution won't disappear entirely around here because (a) some of it is produced by domestic gas and (b) wherever it is produced it will quickly blow around the area. But the fact that the pollution levels dropped on both Wightman AND Green Lanes during the bridge repair is a strong argument - given that air pollution contributes to 40,000 early deaths every year- in favour of filtering Wightman.

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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on March 30, 2017 at 18:51

I think this is the thread you are referring to:
http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/hcg-s-air-pollution-mon...

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Permalink Reply by Penguin on March 31, 2017 at 9:46

Here here! It created an absolute nightmare

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Permalink Reply by JoeW on March 30, 2017 at 22:56

Well said Karen.

I'd add that this is not just an opportunity to do the right thing for future generations. Current generations deserve something better too:

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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on March 30, 2017 at 14:15

There seems to be a wide range of options on there but down at the bottom there is then mention of a £350k budget (maybe £1m over three years) which appears to bear little resemblance to the suggested options.

A cycle lane Northbound on Green Lanes for instance is, if it's going to be done properly, going to cost far more than that. I'm not sure whether the result will be very poorly implemented infrastructure (a lick of blue paint maybe) or conclusions that are then ignored because they are out of budget.

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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on March 30, 2017 at 16:22

A bid has been put in for funding but it hasn't been approved. There's no guarantee of even that level of budget. Right here today there is no budget.

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Permalink Reply by michaelw on March 31, 2017 at 8:36

It's worth noting that the Arena shopping centre is one important creator of traffic in this area, and as has been discussed previously the council's overall plan includes a proposal to change this to mainly housing.

Given recent announcements from Sainsburys about reducing opening hours & Homebase's strange emptiness it looks like this would fit with changed shopping patterns.

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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on March 31, 2017 at 8:44

That's not going to happen for at least a decade.

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