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Hackney to Trial Raft of Road Closures to Stop Rat-Running
Hackney Council have proposed controversial new plans to trial closing junctions to through-traffic in 16 places around London Fields in east London, with the intention of stopping rat running, using residential side streets instead of main roads to avoid traffic, as well as reducing pollution and making cycling safer.
The project, which is due to begin with a three-month trial in January, will block roads with “attractive planters filled with winter flowers and shrubs” to “act as a filtering system to motor traffic” over an area of roughly a square kilometre between Richmond Road in the north and Scriven Road in the south, and Lansdowne Drive in the east and Haggerston Road in the west.
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Permalink Reply by michaelw on
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There has been some capacity reduction on main roads in London too, though less so since Boris. The congestion charge for one thing, but also some of the changes from one way to two way have reduced capacity.
There is also the debate on what should be a main road - as you see with Wightman Road. If Wightman road became 6 lane, I guarantee an increase in traffic in Haringey, if it was full of pinch points (including at the wide junction at the north end), then there would be a reduction.
Similarly for Green Lanes, which has some pinch points - like the Harringay Green Lanes bridge, where all north-south non-Wightman traffic must go through. If you widened green lanes you would get more traffic in Haringey as a whole.
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Permalink Reply by Laura on
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Discussion of gated communities is a derailment of the topic, if I may be forgiven for saying so. I would urge "people first" is the way to think about traffic and transport and road closures and such things. Eg, it's not pedestrians versus cyclists versus car drivers versus commercial drivers etc etc etc. Transport and traffic planning should put people first. Improving streets/road for pedestrians and cyclists improves the environment for all PEOPLE.
In my opinion London Borough of Hackney is progressive in it's transport policies.
This is the page for LB Hackney transport strategy documents
https://consultation.hackney.gov.uk/streetscene/draft-hackney-trans...
I think this is the equivalent LB Haringey page but it appears to only go to 2014
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/haringey...
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