Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Green Lanes Area Transport Study - consultation
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/transport/green-lanes-area-transport-study
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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"why not support removing parking on one side of the road and moving the the opposite bays onto the road?"
I think you mean Package WL1 - "Minor Improvements":
This would be a minor inconvenience for residents unable to park on their own side of the road, in exchange for an improvement for pedestrians. Also nicer for the >16000 per day through traffic vehicles which would no longer need to negotiate parked cars on one side, so I'd expect the through traffic to increase and therefore negate any improvements for pedestrians and further increase noise and pollution and reduce residents' quality of life. I can't see any benefit for cyclists - there's no increase in carriageway width which is too narrow for shared car+cycle use with >16000 vehicle movements per day. One of the diagrams suggests chicanes too which I think would have a similar effect to the current islands i.e. encourage vehicles to speed up dangerously in order to overtake a cyclist before the next chicane.
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Permalink Reply by DanielJ on
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John,
Can I just point out that filtered is correct. From the point of view of anyone on foot or on a bike, Wightman was never closed (well except for the few days when they finished off!). There's a serious point in here, namely that if you view "journeys" as simply "car journeys" you ignore the significant negative impact on non-car users (the majority of people in Harringay) of too much motor traffic. I'll bet the families I saw walking/playing/cycling along Wightman last summer don't make an appearance this year. There's clearly a balance to be struck, local residents need to get around and public transport needs prioritisation. But I object to two things in particular: first, that the area is sacrificed (particularly residential roads such as Wightman) as a route for those further north to drive into central London; second, that there is an implicit assumption that car journey times are sacred and can't be negatively impacted. The quiet victims of this are those who would cycle but can't, those who would walk but are dissuaded. Their journeys are already majorly impacted and there's a direct trade off with car journey times - the status quo is an unrealistic benchmark IMO, not least because of the pollution consequences.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Fair enough Daniel - I hadn't thought of " Filtering " as meaning let some through but not others.
But by " journeys " I think of all journeys, not just car journeys. If a bus takes three times as long to go from A to B, 100-odd passengers are negatively impacted, not just one or two cars.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I'd be more sympathetic to this argument if the cars regularly contained more than one passenger (the driver!)
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There are four options. One of them is way too much for the likes of us, two of them are THE SAME THING. Guess what you're getting if you plump for filtering?
The only Harringay residents that will be happy about the result of this consultation will be Antoinette and Paulie.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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This was snapped from a programme on TV, shot in Spain. This is exactly the same as a solution I've been wondering about and putting forward for consideration for Wightman. "No Entry Except to Residents"
Let's say a Wightman sign allowed passage to all Haringey Resident permit holders. A dozen of these and a few fixed traffic cameras along with penalties for infringement would be an enormously cheap and effective solution.
The system could even be set to operate only during certain hours to help mimimise the worst of any local 'displacement snarl-ups'.
The thin end of the wedge however might be if these appeared all over London. But the same could be said for the closures in Hermitage and the Gardens and they still stand.
What this picture showed me was that such a system is apparently found to be a workable solution elsewhere in Europe. So why not in London?
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Why not ? Because the citizens of other countries in Europe generally respect the laws, whereas in London....... ?
There is a 20mph speed limit on most roads in Haringey but you would never know it
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They don't in my experience.
And the 20mph limit really does need to be enforced before drivers and cyclists take it seriously.
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The speed limit doesn't apply to cyclists. Speed limits only apply to motorised vehicles but that does include electric bicycles.
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From Steering Group #5 minutes "Various questions were asked regarding whether a camera system, to allow only access to Harringay and/or Haringey residents to certain roads would be possible. Council officers commented that this would be illegal."
I'd guess "illegal" doesn't mean "impossible" but "would require a change in legislation" to change the status of the road(s)? It's different from the Gardens where although there is a rising bollard at one exit for which only residents have a fob, the roads are not actually private - anyone can enter and drive on them. But even there I think the Council aren't keen to have systems that require giving residents fobs or passes - hence the package option to replace the rising bollard with a permanent barrier.
"The system could even be set to operate only during certain hours to help mimimise the worst of any local 'displacement snarl-ups'."
Did you have an idea when the "certain hours" would be Hugh? The above chart of a single weekday shows that Wightman traffic hits 800 vehicles per hour in the early morning and rises to well over 1000vph for the whole afternoon and early evening. It doesn't seem very tidal just a constant heavy flow all day.
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It would be tampered with I'm afraid just like someone is regularly tampering with the bollards on St Anns Road going into The Gardens so that it remains open to our lovely rat running speeding friends in their BM's and Mercs. Have reported to local ward councillors and the GRA who have done....
you guessed it! Nothing.
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