Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
HGVs being tackled on the Ladder
Following the installation of three new cameras (to add to the two already at either end of Wightman Road), 439 HGVs were caught and fined in March and April for illegally using the Ladder roads.
The Council also plans to install six more cameras to catch rat-running HGVs in a further group of west-bound Ladder roads. Locations are to be decided.
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Permalink Reply by kotkas on
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Fantastic news. As a long suffering inhabitant of a west bound road I can’t wait!
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Permalink Reply by Classical Contrarian on
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Do you know if they have any plans / have a contact relating to these cameras elsewhere?
Oakfield Road is getting a massive increase in HGV and backups.
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In the early years of the two initial cameras, the 'maximum weight' signs on Endymion Rd could be found turned round, making the weight limit unannounced and thus unenforceable. If the weight limit matters to you, check any sign that catches your eye - I will.
Oakfield Rd and Stapleton Hall Rd are a rat-run versus the northbound queues on Upper Tollington Park, caused I think in part by many more pedestrians triggering the traffic lights on Endymion Rd to access Finsbury Park. And last week and until this Thursday, there are temporary traffic lights at the Endymion Rd mini-roundabout for gas works.
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The shaking as skip lorries and articulated lorries hit the bumps on Endymion is quite something to experience.
Are HGV's completely banned from Endymion because Tesco sends its artics down there pretty much daily. I wonder what the weight limit on bridge over the East Coast mainline is?
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No weight limit on Endymion Rd or the bridge over the railway, just on Wightman Rd/Alroy Rd and the Ladder roads. There are signs on Endymion Rd (and Turnpike Lane) warning of the weight limit on Wightman Rd, though.
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A concrete mixer hit the temporary bollards down the side of the park on Fri afternoon, right next to my 2 & 5 yr olds on their bikes (obviously they were pavement side). Driver didn’t even notice or if they did, didn’t stop. It was pure fluke the kids weren’t hit. That’s my second near miss in the last few months on Endymion; have emailed Haringey safer streets although not sure whether anything will come of it. I find it’s not so much the lorries than the overall quantum of traffic which is the issue.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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Concrete mixers are terrifying, I was cycling to work the other day in a cycle lane and a concrete mixer passed me, coming very very close, pretty much on the line of the cycle lane (it wasn't a segregated lane just a painted line). Scary to have that barrel turning right next to my head! I remembered all of the advice I'd been given about "never pass a truck on the inside because the driver can't see you" and kicking myself for letting it happen - would have been better if I'd ignored the lane and cycled in the middle of the road where nobody could close pass.
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The amount of cars who jump the red light on those traffic lights is incredible.
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Was this restriction always an attempt to stop rat-running HGVs or was it originally linked to weight restrictions for the bridge (or the road itself)? Just wondering how and when it came about.
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