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Haringey Cycle Loop Planned: Opportunity to input
The Proposed Haringey Loop Cycle Route
Haringey Council is planning the development of a Haringey Loop cycle route, based on an outline proposal by Haringey Cycling Campaign.
Consultants have been commissioned to carry out a feasibility study into the route to review existing conditions, identify options for improving conditions for cycling and make recommendations.
To inform the study they are seeking input from groups and inidividuals with local interests and knowledge. HoL members have been invited to add their input.
A key part of the information gathering element of the study will be a Cycle Route Inspection Meeting. This will to review existing conditions, identify problems and gaps in facilities for cyclists (and where appropriate walkers) and discuss how improvements could be made.
The inspection will take place by bicycle on 1 February 2013, meeting at 10.45am at Wood Green library, for an 11am start.
The ride will run anti-clockwise around the suggested route for the Loop, stopping at Finsbury Park cafe for a lunch break (participants will be liable for their own lunch costs), with an anticipated finish time of around 4pm.
If you would like to attend, you should send confirmation by emailing consultant Mark strong as soon as possible.
email: mark.strong@transport-initiatives.com
Tel: 0845 345 7623
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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......and Muswell Hill....and Crouch End....and Harringay....and Bounds Green etc.
C'mon, Pam.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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It's a circular route so the middle inevitably gets left out. But the mental map of Haringey's nice bits often (not unreasonably) misses out the east. I would have dragged this over to Markfield and the canal. Not sure what this plan is for. It it to create our own race circuit? To be a fun day out? To expose hidden treasures? I will ask them. If the latter, it needs stretching out eastwards.
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Mmm ..... Muswell Hill on the far west is also left out.
I suppose a loop could also be designed in a figure of 8 configuration?
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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To be fair, would you want to cycle up Muswell Hill, Hugh? The buses have enough trouble put-putting up there!!
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Never! But, having said that, you wouldn't have too steep a climb if it was approached from one of the back routes, would you?
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True enough, and imagine how much fun it could be coming down it!
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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There’s a café on each corner.
Will bikers be pedalling much faster?
Stops on the loop for panini and soup, health disaster?
Guess I'll go and eat some pasta!
(Apologies to Oscar Hammerstein)
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Permalink Reply by Alice Lemaitre on
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Consultation on a Friday...commuter cyclists are less likely to be involved but then a loop route isn't designed to help with commuting presumably. It is clearly for leisure: I think Pam is right, racing is the obvious aim. It could put Haringey on the map of cyclists around the world. We could have an annual event, suggest that the contre la montre of the Tour de France starts with the well known Haringey loop race, bring Wiggins to open it every year and get Lance Amstrong to declare that drugs are bad, bad, bad to discourage our youngters ever becoming cheats. This is absolutely what cycling needs, why didn't we think about it earlier. Simple yet pretty mad: a loop.
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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I do agree with Pam Hugh.Could the loop not be extended east to run through the quiet streets of West Green and Bruce Grove Wards down Mt Pleasant and across Philip Lane to include a passage across that lovely (and soon to be improved -hopefully) Tottenham Green? This would mean that it had green spaces at each of its cardinal points and did cover more of this east west shaped borough.
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