Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey the 4th most congested London borough
Very sad statistics in the Metro this week - Haringey ranks the 4th most congested borough in London. And the #1 slowest borough for travel times.
Metro - New traffic map reveals London’s most congested boroughs
The only answer to this is to get cars off the road, by improving cycle lanes, cycle infrastructure and encouraging car alternatives. Compared with neighbouring boroughs such as Islington, Haringey has a lot of catching up to do.
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth M
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W7 not 212! Still very quick.
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Add the walk to and wait for the train then wait for the bus - probably no quicker than walking once that’s all factored in! Which is a legitimate way to get there but I do agree that it should be quicker and easier if we want to reduce car use.
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Permalink Reply by John Leeming
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I would have thought that half an hour to drive 10km was fairly normal for almost any dense urban area in the country. For those who don't have to use cars, there is a fair selection of reasonably fast local rail services crossing Haringey.
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Brian’s analysis nails it exactly: traffic “evaporation” is a myth, and Bounds Green a prime example. Problems there started when Enfield created an LTN on their side of the borough boundary; this simply shifted all the traffic into Haringey, so the council retaliated with its own LTN, and the dire results outlined are the consequence. In our area, the council has completely reneged on its promise to improve Green Lanes to mitigate the predicted impact of the LTNs in forcing extra vehicles onto an already over-capacity road. If the council was serious about improvement, it would ban or reduce parking between the Arena and the Salisbury, control and enforce loading and waiting restrictions, create a northbound bus lane and bus priority at traffic lights, and work with the GLA/DoT to severly restrict access to/from the N Circular at peak times. It shows absolutely no sign of doing any of these.
While GL remains a trunk route to/from central London it will always attract excess through and commuter traffic and that’s what needs to be controlled; if GL is permanently congested, vehicles will always seek alternatives, but closing side roads with CCTV and flowerpots just forces even more of them onto GL. LTN advocates, with a “two wheels good, four wheels bad” mantra, often seem so myopic that they can only see private cars, not tradespeople, carers, delivery vehicles or — importantly — buses when they promote their schemes. The more traffic there is on “boundary” roads, the worse the pollution there, the more delayed buses become and the less there’s an incentive to use public transport as a car alternative. GL is a particular geographic problem, with the railway as a wall down one side and only Endymion and Turnpike Lane as crossings in its lower reaches; without radical thinking about this, LTNs are just tinkering at the edges, increasing the very problems they are purported to solve.
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