Haringey Council gets funding for three new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - Harringay online2024-03-29T12:11:37Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/haringey-council-gets-funding-for-three-new-low-traffic-neighbour?commentId=844301%3AComment%3A1409209&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noGiven the political clienteli…tag:harringayonline.com,2021-02-04:844301:Comment:14092092021-02-04T13:58:21.238ZWillhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Will43
<p>Given the <span>political clientelism that defines the running of Haringey Council, it would be sensible for Ladder residents to focus on the nature of their transaction with local councillors.</span></p>
<p><span>The leader of the council offers councillors patronage, the electorate traditionally offers them votes in exchange for support. However, the Harringay ward electorate appears to offer its vote for free. What material gain does it receive from its councillors?</span></p>
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<p>Given the <span>political clientelism that defines the running of Haringey Council, it would be sensible for Ladder residents to focus on the nature of their transaction with local councillors.</span></p>
<p><span>The leader of the council offers councillors patronage, the electorate traditionally offers them votes in exchange for support. However, the Harringay ward electorate appears to offer its vote for free. What material gain does it receive from its councillors?</span></p>
<p><span>If the Ladder Living Streets group were to join the local party (for purely pragmatic purposes) it would stand a better chance of forcing its agenda through (see the Green Lanes business groups, and neighbouring wards).</span></p> Views are being requested for…tag:harringayonline.com,2021-02-04:844301:Comment:14092042021-02-04T12:02:24.705ZMichael Andersonhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/17bathgate
<p>Views are being requested for the planning stage of the St Anns LTN</p>
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<p>Views are being requested for the planning stage of the St Anns LTN</p>
<p><a href="https://stannsltnmap.commonplace.is" target="_blank">https://stannsltnmap.commonplace.is</a></p> The way this funding as alloc…tag:harringayonline.com,2021-02-04:844301:Comment:14092742021-02-04T09:52:14.898ZJohn McMullanhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/bogan72
<p>The way this funding as allocated seems to be that if you are already a low traffic neighbourhood (perhaps because of local political corruption in 2005) you are far more likely to get even more money to further reduce your traffic. The ladder is used as a dumping ground and hiding place for incredibly levels of traffic which shorten the lives of residents. The agency that local councillors have appears to be heavily restricted by the council officers, at least that is the impression I get…</p>
<p>The way this funding as allocated seems to be that if you are already a low traffic neighbourhood (perhaps because of local political corruption in 2005) you are far more likely to get even more money to further reduce your traffic. The ladder is used as a dumping ground and hiding place for incredibly levels of traffic which shorten the lives of residents. The agency that local councillors have appears to be heavily restricted by the council officers, at least that is the impression I get from councillor Matt White who is running with this scheme. Pockets of low traffic are tolerated but essentially the cut through the middle of the borough must be maintained.</p>
<p>We are incredibly let down by our local politicians again and it's not surprising. Meetings are poorly attended and the same car centric local Labour members are calling the shots. Hackney, Islington and Enfield are making us look bad, especially with regard to cycling provision and throwing money at places that are already OK is not going to improve the situation.</p>
<p>I call on the council to give this money back to TfL if they can't spend it to improve the lives of residents blighted by increasing levels of through traffic.</p> Didn’t Haringey Council recen…tag:harringayonline.com,2020-12-23:844301:Comment:13631182020-12-23T09:35:00.959ZWilliamhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/William
<p>Didn’t Haringey Council recently spend thousands putting chicanes on Wightman Road (at the top of the ladder roads), thus making it one of the most dangerous roads to cycle along? I used to cycle along there to get to work, but I’ve switched to driving since the introduction of the measures. Hopefully, some of the £5.1m will be used to rectify the issue. </p>
<p>Didn’t Haringey Council recently spend thousands putting chicanes on Wightman Road (at the top of the ladder roads), thus making it one of the most dangerous roads to cycle along? I used to cycle along there to get to work, but I’ve switched to driving since the introduction of the measures. Hopefully, some of the £5.1m will be used to rectify the issue. </p> This is fantastic news for th…tag:harringayonline.com,2020-12-22:844301:Comment:13628252020-12-22T23:22:41.904ZPaul Harveyhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/PaulHarvey
<p>This is fantastic news for the area, huge thanks to all the people working so hard to secure this funding and the opportunity to reduce traffic on our residential streets. Thankyou</p>
<p>This is fantastic news for the area, huge thanks to all the people working so hard to secure this funding and the opportunity to reduce traffic on our residential streets. Thankyou</p>