Improving walking and cycling routes in the Borough

Public footpaths across Haringey are to be improved with new signs, better maintenance and less clutter under a newly agreed nine year council programme.

Haringey Council’s new Rights of Way Improvement Plan is aimed at encouraging more residents and visitors to the borough to get around on foot or by bicycle, away from main roads.

The plan will also see the publication next year (2009) of a new definitive map of rights of way across Haringey, following a major survey and consultation in the borough.

In addition, the council will publish two suggested walks and cycle rides in the borough each year.

Other initiatives set out in the programme, which will run until 2017, include:

* All signs on key paths to have destinations and distances
* Introduction of a pro-active maintenance regime of rights of way, improving the condition of pathways
* Removal of unnecessary street clutter
* Creation of six new circular routes and publication of walking links connecting larger open spaces
* To help blind or visually impaired people, information on walks to be provided in Braille or large print and new tactile surfacing to be introduction at the junction of paths and roadside pavements.

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