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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

I had this forwarded to me from one of our Harringay Ward Councillors, Zena.

Given the shocking showing in relation to the Green Lanes Transport Study I would love to be more optimistic about the value of this exercise, but.... 

Anyway, if you have any thoughts here are the details.

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From: Goldberg Neil a href="mailto:neil.goldberg@haringey.gov.uk">neil.goldberg@haringey.gov.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 15:19
Subject: Consultation Launch - Haringey's Draft Transport Strategy
To: Transport Strategy a href="mailto:transport.strategy@haringey.gov.uk">transport.strategy@haringey.gov.uk>
The Draft Haringey Transport Strategy 2018

Public Consultation Friday 10 November – Friday 22 December 2017

Dear Colleagues,

Haringey is consulting on its new Transport Strategy which will provide the transport vision for the borough over the next 10 years.

A new strategy is needed to update the existing Transport Strategy and to take account of the new Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy (MTS) which was consulted on during autumn 2017.

The strategy will also support Haringey’s next Local Implementation Plan which will be produced once the Mayor of London has adopted his MTS.

The Transport Strategy provides the strategic vision and statement of Haringey’s ambitions for transport and highlights the borough’s key commitments over the next 10 years. Haringey will prepare a set of actions plans over the next 12 months which will outline how this vision will be achieved. These actions plans may include: a walking and cycling action plan, a parking action plan and a sustainable travel action plan.

The draft Strategy can be viewed here:www.haringey.gov.uk/transport-strategy-2018

You can also view the document at:

 or visit one of our consultation exhibitions:

 Comments on the draft Strategy can be sent by

  • Writing to:
    Transport Planning
    Level 6, River Park House
    225 High Road
    Wood Green
    N22 8HQ

 Kindest Regards

Neil Goldberg

020 483 4255

Transport Planning and Planning Policy 

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The consultants who produced the Green Lanes Transport Study seem not to have had sight of this draft policy statement, which I have edited to make consistent with what appears to be actual council policy:

Outcome 4
A well maintained road network that is less congested and safer

...

Many residential areas in the Borough suffer from freight  vehicles rat running along unsuitable roads, causing noise and pollution for residents.

...

Priorities

-> To reduce road user casualties , especially among children, pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users (except in the case of Wightman Road, in which case the status quo is to be maintained)
->To minimise the use of our back streets as ‘rat runs’. (Save for back streets of the Harringay Ladder which we view as essential to ensure most traffic to and from the A10 to Finsbury Park is provided with 10 different road options for a nice solid cut through which saves them at least 5 minutes not having to use Green Lanes.)

Veolia and the council are amongst the HGV rat runners. As are Hackney and Islington.

I'm fully expecting some support for electric cars, lots of stuff about Crossrail 2 at Wood Green (for the sake of the council developments rather than a transport policy) and commitments to cycling/walking without anything to actually facilitate them. If it follows the mayor's thinking then some stuff on busses too.

Haringey have had many chances over the years to look at something more modern but there is clearly no political will for it compared to boroughs like Hackney.

To get an idea of how progressive and ambitious the council are, see this from my timeline on Twitter earlier today (dunces).

Not exactly a "stretch target", is it? To achieve by 2026 what is already being achieved?

Similar figures were published during the transport study ("existing conditions", page 10):

That is 37% by foot/bike vs 25% by car. This is just trips that start or end locally though - we know that the majority of journeys round here are actually straight through without stopping - mostly by car or public transport. I'm not sure the council fully understands the implications of this - the typical measures used to encourage walking and cycling, like "walk-to-school" programs or bike repair maintenance schemes, will only ever scratch the surface because they only address local residents (60% of whom don't own a car anyway), when most of the traffic is through-traffic.

To significantly address the through-traffic there has to be physical restrictions and/or charging.

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