Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
GREEN Lanes, traffic, parking and shopping
COULD our local council learn from the latest news and experience of Oxford Street?
Or will the Highwaymen take the traditional council view, Not Invented Here.
Green Lanes has for many years remained a heavily-trafficked, open running-sewer of pollution; pedestrian unfriendly and sometimes frequented by noisy Boy-Racers, with traders opposed to change and supported by the über-conservative Highwaymen of the council.
The desire by traders to keep maximum parking for cars is likely to have been motivated by the (questionable) belief that reducing parking for car-owners would lead to reduced trade.
Due to the chronic, close and cosy relationship with the previous Administration, there was net zero improvement.
Could Greens take a different view?
Oxford Street spend up since traffic ban, data shows
Could they take a leaf from the book of London Mayor Sadiq Khan?!
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Tags for Forum Posts: cars, green lanes, oxford street, parking, pollution, sadiq khan, trade, traders, traffic
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Gideon
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I don't know about anyone else but maybe my favourite days in Harringay in my 20 years here were to two days they shut the street for the Harringay Food Festival. It was packed, happy, and there was a community vibe I've not felt quite so strongly since. I've still got the tote bag!
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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GIDEON, yes!
I would like to see another food festival in the street here in the next couple of years. It’ll be an enormous undertaking but well worth it.
Source: ‘[Green Lanes] Traders welcome Council leader Peray Ahmet’
Former New Labour council leader Peray Ahmet—and staunch supporter of the restaurants on Green Lanes—wanted to see more (food) festivals.
Her reference to "enormous undertaking" may be an oblique reference to expected resistance from the council's HighwayMen.
That's a festival I'd also like to see more of!
The muncipal Highways Department—whose main remit is to ease traffic flow—are likely to be among the hardest nuts for the Green Administration to crack.
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