Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Active Travel + Clean Air Hustings in Harringay 22 April
Join us next Wednesday for our local election debate and ask the candidates directly:
- How will they make walking, wheeling and cycling in Haringey safe and fun for everyone?
- Will they build a safe cycle network?
- How will they ensure we can all breathe clean air?
Date: 22 April 2026
Time: Doors open at 7.00pm. Husting starts 7:30pm and finishes at 8:30pm.
Venue: North Harringay Primary School, 5 Falkland Rd, London N8 0NU
– Step-free access throughout,
– Secure bike parking inside the school.
Tickets: RSVP (free)
https://lcc.org.uk/events/haringey-active-travel-and-clean-air-hust...
Chair: Henry Mance (Financial Times chief features writer)
Candidates:
Organised by:
Come along to hear from candidates, ask questions, and shape the future of active travel and clean air in Haringey!
https://lcc.org.uk/events/haringey-active-travel-and-clean-air-hust...
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Permalink Reply by D Smith on
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Don't expect anything useful from Cllr Ibrahim Ali, as I have emailed him multiple times recently about the lack of enforcement of the Bounds Green LTN over the last three years, and he has ignored me, and ignored emails from a local Cllr too.
Haringey just don't care about cycling.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Haringey just don't care about cycling.
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The council do care, or may say they care.
Just not enough to do anything meaningful.
There is not a single example of world-class cycling infrastructure in the Borough. Anywhere.
By contrast, this council boasts of Finsbury Park (in the Ward) as a world-class gig venue. For their customer. As of yesterday, their customer Live Nation is a convicted monopolist and their event is not world-class.
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What was the outcome of this?
Is Haringey set to be a new walking and cycling Nirvana?
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Haringey? An Active Travel Nirvana?
On yer bike!
Earlier this month, the council's swaggering Events Team lost the Neo Nazi rapper who was scheduled in July to headline for three nights at Wireless.
The council leader is a fan of Grime "music" and Major Events in Finsbury Park, but the Nirvana that the Events Team might want, would be the band.
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Permalink Reply by Pugface
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If only!!
You can see what was said (and not said) by reps of the three main parties at this link:
https://haringeycyclists.org/news/campaigning/haringey-active-trave...
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This was useful and well done to those involved for holding and, importantly, recording the event.
Two points struck me, the first is just how mealy-mouthed all candidates were about the restaurants' emissions. It's all very difficult, hmm.. it will take a lot of time... compromise and partnerships... the long grass beckons. I'd prefer to take a lead from the amazing Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah who continues to be a voice of reason in her campaign to fully implement Ella's Law. She notes the councils' and the governments clear legal vulnerabilities now that they are aware of and acknowledge the risk to life from air pollution. She has broadened her focus to include non-traffic related pollution (and also holds the view that many LTNs have created a two-tier pollution risk which councils could be liable for). The council has a duty to act on the particulate pollution from the restaurants... not to ask residents to be understanding.
The second (this will be less popular) was the rowdy finish when the lycra-lads got onto their GL parking hobbyhorse. They really want that cycle lane. I've still not had it explained to me where the cars will park, even if the absolute levels of those driving to GL for shopping declines. And whose streets those trucks and vans making deliveries will choose to travel through and park up in. There might be good answers but none were forthcoming in the meeting. The parking can definitely do with some adjustments and better enforcement, but I found it a bit troubling that such a blunt instrument got so much testosterone pumping.
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Do the owners of the restaurants have anything in common? Why would the councillors, actual and prospective, not want to risk upsetting them by imposing environmental protections that will help protect childrens' lungs? Are they putting the profitability of those restaurants above our community health and wellbeing?
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The business rates they pay must represent a big chunk of revenue for the Council. I can see why the Council has traditionally bent over backwards to keep them on side (much the same as those large music corporations that rent Finsbury Park).
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Money coming into council coffers has as little value for the councillors as money going out. It's other people's money. We should never underestimate how little it takes for them to be swayed. A few tickets here, a discounted Labour party dinner on GL there. Their obsequience is more likely a function of a long term relationship in which a relatively well-organised group can make things pleasant or less pleasant for the party and its candidates. That becomes a learned behaviour even for the opposition parties. In fairness, it's also why they always turn up for the cycle lobby.
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